[WikiEN-l] More fair use image overreaching

geni geniice at gmail.com
Sun Mar 2 20:37:10 UTC 2008


On 02/03/2008, WJhonson at aol.com <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
>  "Replaceable" is a very tenuous term.
>  If we have no free-use image, we should be and are free to use a fair-use
>  image
>  *until* such time as we do have a free-use image.

We tried that. Our living people bios ended up lousy with copyvios
with fair use tags and no one really looked for free replacements.

>  Not just until some time as someone figures out that an image *might* be
>  able to be replaced somehow (but we don't have one);

If an image can be replaced then it can be replaced. We can get by
without an image untill a free one becomes available.

-- 
geni



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