[WikiEN-l] Getting rid of bad fair use

[geni]

On 5/19/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think what is meant is that the O RLY owl (O RLY stamped over a picture of
> an owl taken by someone else) infringed on the copyright of the original owl
> photographer. And since we weren't doing anything fair-use-wise with respect
> to that original photo, we were infringing on their copyright as well.
>


Sure we are not useing it for critical comment of the original image
but there are other posible fair use rationals around for example:

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=O%20RLY&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Is generaly considered to be fair use.
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geni