[Foundation-l] Board meeting in Rotterdam later this week

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Wed Jan 17 13:12:33 UTC 2007


On 17/01/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/17/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I'm a great fan of fair use images on en:wp when used properly -
> > quoting images is as important to being able to discuss things at all
> > as quoting text is - but as far as I can tell, really quite a lot of
> > the allegedly "fair use" images on en:wp should be taken out and shot.

> You want to try telling the WikiProject Album that?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Albums#Album_covers_and_fair_use


I'm fine with book and album covers in an article substantially
dealing with the book or album or its cover specifically - that's
clearly fair use. It's when e.g. it's a general illustration on an
artist article that it's pushing it.


- d.




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