[WikiEN-l] Our Featured Article of the Day Contains Probable Copyright Violations

[geni]

On 3/7/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> John Lee wrote:
>
> >[[Triumph of the Will]] has a gallery of fair use pictures. The gallery
> >itself violates fair use under American law, which requires that the
> >subject of the images be critically discussed by the article using those
> >images. As if that were not enough, the images are *high-resolution*. It
> >has been suggested that the images are public domain, but this has not
> >been conclusively proven, and the images are currently marked with a
> >copyright of 2005 by the uploader, who also wrote much of the article.
> >It would be bad enough if this is any ordinary article, but...
> >
> >   1. It's a featured article, which means it's the best we have to offer
> >   2. It's on the frickin' main page right now
> >
> >Then again, I suppose this does reflect the condition of how fair use
> >and copyright law are blatantly ignored/misunderstood by most
> >Wikipedians...for further information, see [[Wikipedia:Fair use
> >review]], which has a fuller description of what's going on.
> >
> Why are we talking about fair use when the film is clearly in the public
> domain?  It was released in 1935!!!  1935 + 70 = 2005.
>
> Ec

Wrong country. Leni Riefenstahl died in 2003.

Further details:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)&diff=42060761&oldid=41976931
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geni