I dug up the Indian fair use law and found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Fair_use#reproduction_in_a_newspaper
In this case, the aircraft had crashed and it was no longer possible to get such a photograph, but can a newspaper otherwise just pick up any photo off the internet and use it under fair use clause just to avoid paying licensing fees of the photograph? -arun On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Gautam John <gau...@prathambooks.org>wrote: > On 23 December 2011 21:43, Srikanth Ramakrishnan > <parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Gautam, thank you for correcting me, but I believe Digitally Stealing > > is also defined as Using Data Without Permission. Atleast that's the > > definition Microsoft uses for their Windows Genuine campaign. Forgive > > me if I'm wrong. > > Since when did Microsoft become the arbiter of all that is sacred in > copyright law? :) > > Thank you. > > Best, > > Gautam > ________ > http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > -- j.mp/ArunGanesh
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