User talk:Redkern

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[edit] Cover deletions

Those covers might be fair use. That's not the issue. WP:FU is very clear on this. "Here are a few examples of uses that would almost certainly not be acceptable as fair use: ...... 7. An image of a magazine cover, used only to illustrate the article on the person whose photograph is on the cover. However, if that magazine issue itself is notable enough to be a topic within the article, then fair use may apply." The fair use image tag attached to almost everyone of these covers is even more restrictive. I'm deleting covers under this rule, but I'm flexible, if the text of the article mentions the magazine I leave the cover in. Other people working on fair use problems remove covers I'd leave in. Since you're a law student, you also know I hope that using magazine covers means using magazine logos which means using magazine trademarks. That makes fair use even harder. Jimbo says "But an ordinary photo of a random celebrity? We are much better off to have no photo than to have a fair use or even "wikipedia only" photo." If you look at the talk pages related to WP:FU there's lots of discussion and my removals are relatively conservative. Bottom line: OK as fair use on WP doesn't always mean OK as fair use in GFDL-republication of WP material. And that's important. The editor soon to be formerly known as Harmonica Wolfowitz 19:19, 5 August 2006 (UTC)