On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:57 PM, luh<luhmann...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi, I have been creating picture flashcards using images from google image search for foreign language studying. Would it be acceptable to upload those to mnemosyne's site card collections? The images are originally not free, but I believe it is more than fair use, since only the thumbnails are used, and this is obviously for educational purposes.
What do you mean 'more than fair use'? Fair use is only at most fair use, and often is less. There's a reason Wikipedia tries to minimize fair use - it's not a license, is very risky, and courts aren't too friendly to it.
I am trying to create a thorough picture dictionary for French and Spanish using google image search.
Too bad you couldn't've started with Flickr (filtering by CC licenses) and Wikimedia Commons (with its millions of images). Then you wouldn't have to worry about fair use. But I suppose you've gotten enough images by now that you don't want to start over. -- gwern
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