[WikiEN-l] Question for copyright savvy folks

[Thomas Dalton]

> >For the questions on fair use of the scans: do the scans add something
> >to the article that you really just can't get any other way? With
> >album and book covers, it's *the* cover for the album. Is a score
> >regarded that way?
>
> It's functionally equivalent to a short sound clip, without the
> additional burden of being one person's interpretation of the work. Or
> you might liken it to a photograph of an individual.  It is a picture
> of the work described.
>
> Does it add to the article in a unique and meaningful way?  I'd argue
> very strongly yes.  If you read music, the excerpt tells you an
> enormous amount about the work.  The out-of-copyright ones, which
> would mainly apply to Victorian music hall performers, are very
> unlikely to be rejected from those articles.

I would say it's equivalent to including an extract of a book in the
article about that book. Would we allow that (beyond quoting a
specific passage when discussing that passage)? I doubt it...