[Wikipedia-l] Copyright violations
Jimmy Wales
jwales at bomis.com
Wed Oct 30 11:56:21 UTC 2002
lcrocker at nupedia.com wrote:
> > Tokerboy has uploaded a bunch of record album covers,
> > without permission of the various copyright holders.
> > I don't have the time or the sysop privileges
> > to delete them, so can someone else. Cheers
>
> They should have the same "fair use" status as Isis's
> videotape box covers: as long as they're just being used
> to illustrate articles about the albums, they're fine.
I agree with this, particularly if they are of a size suitable for
illustration, and not suitable for full-scale "pirated" reproduction.
Fair use can be tricky in some cases, but this one seems pretty
straightforward to me.
--Jimbo
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