[WikiEN-l] Copyright dispute

[geni]

On 5/18/07, sean at epoptic.com <sean at epoptic.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 08:53:19PM +0100, geni wrote:
> > On 5/18/07, sean at epoptic.com <sean at epoptic.com> wrote:
> > > I surrender unconditionally and apologize for wasting so much time.
> >
> > Not all if it helps people understand copyright issues.
>
> 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.
>
> How deep does the copyright paranoia go?

But those generic images would also be protected by copyright. Since
we should be able to write more about this unique cover it could be
argued that the fair use case is stronger.

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geni