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[daniwo59 at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/18/2008 8:06:45 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
shimgray at gmail.com writes:

On  18/01/2008, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:

> We  already delete a  massive number of fair use images daily simply  being
> a screenshot of XYZ singer or ABC video game. Are we to think  this won't
> happen with video? Are the administrators of the various  projects ready to
> deal with such an increased number of copyrighted  pages that will require
> deletion? The only way to ensure that this  isn't a problem would to be to
> extend our fair use provisions in the  various projects, allowing 
copyrighted
> media to be added more freely.  We already see people taking the easy way
> out and uploading  copyrighted images of famous people rather than 
attempting
> to acquire  them freely.

It strikes me that this is a very fatalistic  view.




Actually, it is not quite as fatalistic as it would seem. I raised this  
issue on Techcruch regarding the sample Naruto video. I could easily have used  
the Xbox 360, the polar bears from National Geographic, or the long-awaited and  
much anticipated Spice Girl reunion tour (they aged well, didn't they?). The  
response is here: 
_http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/17/kaltura-partners-to-add-crowdsourced-video-to-wikipedia/_ 
(http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/17/kaltura-partners-to-add-crowdsourced-video-to-wikipedia/) 
 
 Michelle 
_January  18th, 2008 at 10:54 am_ 
(http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/17/kaltura-partners-to-add-crowdsourced-video-to-wikipedia/#comment-1927975)   
Danny,





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