User talk:Sylfide

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Peter Howson Images

Hi Sylfide, I hope your translation is coming along well!

I'll try to answer your questions about use of the images in this article. The images are still under copyright to the artist, but they are used in the article under the doctrine of Fair Use which is incorporated within US copyright law. This is also sometimes referred to as "fair dealing" in other jurisdictions, but I have no idea how French copyright law deals with this. Compared to many other jurisdictions, US copyright law is fairly liberal in this regard.

The English Wikipedia currently permits limited amounts of fair use material, provided it meets the Wikipedia policies established at Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria and Wikipedia:Fair use. However, many other Wikipedia projects do not allow fair use at all. The first thing would be to check what the French Wikipedia position is on this. If they don't allow fair use material, then you can't include the images. If they do allow such material, then you'll have to comply with the local policies governing such use. No doubt these policies will take into account the local provisions of French copyright law as they relate to fair use.

I hope this helps, but if you need to discuss this further let me know. Best wishes. --Cactus.man ✍ 10:57, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Cactus, many thanks for this explanation. That really helped me to understand the problem. Unfortunately, the images would not be usable relating to the rules of French Wikipadia. Nevertheless, the article is quite translated, I'll soon pass to rewriting. Best wishes. Sylfide 21:32, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]