Guild Wars Wiki talk:Fair Use

Proposed policy for allowing images to be used under fair use. -- Indochine talk 10:22, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * In the proposed image template the colours kind of clash. red and green should never be seen! More importantly after having a quick scan before I go to work I think that looks pretty sound. However I think we will definitely need to get Gaile involved so she can check with the lawyer folks on this one. -- Lemming64 11:20, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it would need checking by some lawyers... I'm no good at art - I will try some other colour combinations -- [[Image:User indochine sig icon.png]]Indochine talk 11:24, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Question 1
"Location Non-free content is only to be used in the main namespace - never in user pages"
 * Why? --Xeeron 11:52, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Use of non-free images should be kept to a minimum. We don't need it in our user pages. -- [[Image:User indochine sig icon.png]]Indochine talk 11:54, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, I've changed the policy. If you are the owner of the non-free content, you may display it on your user page. If you do so - you must state this in the image description field. -- [[Image:User indochine sig icon.png]]Indochine talk 12:19, 30 July 2007 (UTC) That's not fair use..... :P -- [[Image:User indochine sig icon.png]]Indochine talk 18:09, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Question 2
"Fair Use is a part of United States copyright law of 1976"
 * This is more about the legal stuff in general. Does the wiki use american law in general because Anet is based in the US/the servers are based in the US? Is so, where is that mentioned? --Xeeron 11:52, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Yep. As the servers are in the US, US law applies to them. -- [[Image:User indochine sig icon.png]]Indochine talk 11:53, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure Anet wants the legal nightmare Fair Use law is. (It's vauge, and effectivly constantly changing due to being under attack by the IP lobby=. Backsword 13:38, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Multi-licensing
Hm, I would suggest to make a policy for other types of content as well. We are using a some more non-GFDL images here which are not contributed as Fair use..

There are also nice icons from Biro for images and I would like to make use of them: Image:Copyright-violation-image.png, Image:Public-domain-image.png, Image:Unattributed-image.png, Image:Copyleft-image.png, Image:Copyright-image.png poke | talk 12:06, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * There nice icons - I've used the Image:Copyright-image.png in the Fair Use template -- [[Image:User indochine sig icon.png]]Indochine talk 12:23, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Note
The decision of allowing non-GFDL content on the wiki is ultimately not up to us but to ANet. If we're seriously considering the possibility of allowing content to be used on the wiki with a Fair Use defense, we'll certainly need to make ANet (and their lawyers) part of this discussion. There was a discussion similar to this a while back, where Gaile spoke strongly in favour of keeping everything as GFDL, so that decision won't be an easy one. --Dirigible 04:54, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Fail?
Time to reject this one?
 * 1) It's dead.
 * 2) Legal concernes not addressed.
 * Backsword 13:06, 14 October 2007 (UTC)