[WikiEN-l] Is fair use a right as well as a defense?

[David Gerard]

On 11/09/2007, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/11/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I've been tending to apply "enough to illustrate the article", and
> > reducing higher resolutions to 300x300. (I suppose a particularly
> > remarkable aspect of a particular cover could do with higher
> > resolution on a case by case basis.)

> "Case by case" is a lot of work, and a recipe for abuse. Care to make
> 300x300 a firm rule?
> As an example: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/67/Pepper%27s.jpg
> That's 325x325, and while you can't make out the fine details, it's
> sufficient for our purposes. We could always have some cropped
> closeups of some of the faces.


I wouldn't go in and shrink a 325px image :-) I would, however, shrink
a 1000px image that doesn't have any particular reason to be that high
resolution.


- d.