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

[geni]

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

Those things are all talked about in the article. However to chose an
example at random:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Bring_Me_Down_%28album%29

Doesn't mention the album cover.



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geni