In a message dated 2/24/2008 12:17:23 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, geniice@gmail.com writes:
How exactly would you defend that under the doctrine of fair use? I really can't see a way to do it.>> -------------------- That might be because you don't have a fair grasp of what the doctrine states.
Our copyright policy was for the most part put together by people who have at least a passing knowledge of copyright law. So fair you have failed to show that you do.>> This is a fallacy. The copyright policy, like all others, was put together by us all. The copyright policy does not restrict fair use photographs except as far as copyright law does as well.
The removal of all fair use photographs does nothing useful for the
project.
The project is to make a free encyclopedia.>>
Fair Use can be used inside a free project. Essentially you are repeating what I've already been saying. No fair use photographs are being allowed, at all. None. All fair use photographs are being removed, because certain people feel that any fair use photographs cannot be used within a free encyclopedia.
It does however harm it, by removing useful illustrations from articles that could use them,
So far for your chosen example this does not appear to be true.>>> Yes it's true in that the article would then have no photograph of Patti Smith at all. That is not user-friendly. In general we support the addition of photographs to enhance the value of the project.
replacing their removal with a vacancy filled by nothing. That isn't progress.
Will Johnson
Experience suggests that nothing is more likely to be replaced by a free image than an image with a really really weak fair use claim.
----------- And I have never protested *when* a free use photograph is put into an article. The problem is not however this. But it is when a bot removes all fair use photographs and there *are* no free use photographs. Please address the problem which actually exists, instead of one which does not.
Thanks. Will Johnson
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