[WikiEN-l] Are movie trailers "free enough" for Commons?

[Ray Saintonge]

Kevin Wong wrote:
> Well, placing movie trailers in articles raises the question if whether or
> not we are violating the Advertising policy and if we are straying too far
> from the informative side of things. This is interesting.
>   
With that kind of reasoning we can use any argument to defeat 
ourselves.  It ranks right there with those elementary mathematical 
arguments that prove that 0 = 1, and that depend on a disguised division 
by zero.

Advertising policy depends on the purpose for including the advertising 
material.  The trailer is about some movie, and is used primarily to 
illustrate an article about that movie.  To see the trailer the user 
most likely needs to go to the relevant article first; it will not help 
him to find the article.  We are not randomly presenting the trailer on 
our main page.  The obvious fact that certain material was originally 
produced for advertising does not imply that our use of the material is 
advertising.

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> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:16 PM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote
>> In a message dated 10/2/2008 9:47:43 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>> saintonge at telus.net writes:
>>
>> Their  purpose was a marketting one to encourage the
>> public to see the whole  film.>>
>>
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>> I agree with this analysis and would just like people to understand that a
>> copyright owner is very unlikely to sue us, unless we're reducing his/her
>> potential income.  If contrariwise, our work actually creates new income
>>  streams
>> (as I contend it does in some cases), they will love us and promote  us.
>>
>> Will Johnson
>>
>>
>>