Hoi,
Is this discussion about policy relevant to this mailing list ?
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/6/7 John at Darkstar <[email protected]>
> The person hotlinking can have a resonable fair use claim, but the site
> serving a fair use image for someone else would most likely be in
> serious trouble defending its position. If you have some reasoning that
> this is not the case it would be interesting, as the fair use images
> from english Wikipedia can be moved to Commons if this is correct.
>
> Robert Rohde skrev:
> > On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 1:37 AM, John at Darkstar<[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Platonides comment on fair use images, you say in point 2 that
> >> hotlinking is something that fits nicely withing the wmf mission, I say
> >> it should not be possible to hotlink fair use images.
> >>
> >> How would you argue that serving _fair_use_images_ for someone else is
> >> within wmf mission? How would you argue that such use of the images does
> >> not violates the copyright owners rights to the images?
> >
> > At the risk of stating the obvious, the person hotlinking the image
> > could also have an entirely reasonable fair use claim.
> >
> > -Robert Rohde
> >
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