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

[David Gerard]

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

> > 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.

> Why? If you want to view images as quotes then their use only makes
> sense when the article talks about the images.


No, that's an illustration of the thing actually being talked about
that can't really be substituted (the way a picture of a living person
can).

My favourite example is [[Xenu]]. I think the BBC and South Park
screencaps could be lived without, but the book covers, Sea Org logo
and snippet of Hubbard's handwriting are entirely relevant fair use in
an educational article about Xenu.


- d.