fair use through dual licensing?
Anthony DiPierro <[email protected]>
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I've been thinking of the "fair use" issue, and I've come up with an idea which I'd like to run past everyone. Why not have users dual license their text under the GFDL and Creative Commons by-nc (attribution required and no-commercial use, with derivitives allowed). This would allow Wikipedia and other non-commercial entities to continue to include "fair use" images, but it would require commercial users to release their modifications under the GFDL (thus they could still use the public domain images, but not the "fair use" ones which they were probably not allowed to use anyway). Additionally, make a "public domain" checkbox for submissions, certainly for images, so this information can be easily scanned. Strongly discourage non-PD (and non-GFDL) image submissions, and try to replace what is already there by clearly-marked public domain content whenever possible. Oh, well, just an idea. Feel free to ignore, flame, agree, dispute, spindle, mutilate, or whatever. Anthony