[Wikipedia-l] Copyright violations

Imran Ghory imran at bits.bris.ac.uk
Wed Oct 30 13:08:31 UTC 2002


On Tue, 29 Oct 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.

My understanding of the GNU FDL is that we can't incorporate "fair
use" material unless we implictly declare those sections as "Invariant
Sections".

Imran
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