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 -- 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. -- 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. -- Indochine talk 12:19, 30 July 2007 (UTC) That's not fair use..... :P -- 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. -- 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 -- 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)