On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com<simetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com> > wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote: > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Aryeh Gregor < > > simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com <simetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com> < > simetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com <simetrical%252bwikil...@gmail.com>>> > wrote: > >> [[Daniel Pearl]] does not contain an image > >> of him being beheaded (although it's what he's famous for), and > >> [[Goatse.cx]] does not contain an image of its subject matter. Why? > >> > > > > Primarily because of copyright issues, at least with regard to the > latter, I > > believe. I used to joke about "what's next, a photo on Goatse.cx?" when > > arguing with the "when you look up X you expect a photo of X" crowd, but > > then, for a while it actually came true. > > This is a standard fair-use case: it's a notable image, and our > informative article about it is not complete without a copy of the > image. It's the same reason we can put an image on, I don't know, > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Maar_au_Chat>. Except we don't, > because it's revolting. > > It's at this moments that I'm really thankful that spanish wikipedia has committed to actually be a free-content encyclopedia and only use Commons material (which, as we know, doesn't allow fairuse). I can only hope all this shaking won't change that. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l