Re: Bug#487218: games-thumbnails: unclear copyright concerns
* Arnoud Engelfriet <arnoud@engelfriet.net> [080622 14:46]:
> That would be article 10: "It shall be permissible to make quotations
> from a work which has already been lawfully made available to the public,
> provided that their making is compatible with fair practice, and their
> extent does not exceed that justified by the purpose, including quotations
> from newspaper articles and periodicals in the form of press summaries."
The problem is that "fair practice" and "justified by the purpose" are.
Picture excerpts in books seem to be an highly regulated area, and many
courts and lawyers have come up with absurd rules for that here in Germany,
so I'd guess there is a relatively high risk in this when looking at it
world-wide.
> I agree in principle. However at some point you just have to
> "go for it" even without irrefutable proof. To pick a different situation,
> the Debian project seems to basically trust any license indication
> as valid and complete without any proof. The assumption there seems to
> be that you can always remove it once a rights holder complains.
> Why would the same not apply here?
I think the assumption is more that those people could only force us to
stop and not punish us for believing something we were told with no
hints against. (Strange, though, that people are assumed to know the law
(or know that they do not know and ask a lawyer), but not assumed to
know all the facts. Perhaps that's because lawyers make those rules).
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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