Matthew Brown wrote:
On 7/25/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
The RIAA would appear to differ:
Different case. A site that exists only to offer up hi-res CD cover art, and mostly for the sake of piracy in my experience (people want to print covers for burned disks). There's no good fair use argument there, and there is for us.
-Matt
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I think the hi-res vs. low-res would be the critical argument there, the vast majority of our CD cover images would not make a decent printed cover, and our purposes are clearly educational and nonprofit, which cannot be said for afterdawn. Still, the RIAA loves high-profile lawsuits, and it's not wise to taunt a dangerous lunatic. Let's at least leave them much less reason to care, by using them only where the actual art is discussed in reliable sources and in the article, so that the educational purposes argument is strong and the temptation to turn the lawyers in our direction less.