[WikiEN-l] Copyright dispute

Matthew Brown morven at gmail.com
Fri May 18 20:17:52 UTC 2007


On 5/18/07, sean at epoptic.com <sean at epoptic.com> wrote:
> I hope this reply doesn't violate the terms of my surrender, but I have
> to point out one small irony -- a fair use claim to that unique cover is
> extremely weak.  That particular cover is Dr. Barrett's signed personal
> creation, and Wikipedia has no need to use it when there are more generic
> images available.

Now I'm very confused.  How does this version of the cover differ from
the generally released cover - simply Dr. Barrett's signature?

I don't think that part of our fair use requirements, or the law's for
that matter, require the most generic image available.

-Matt



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