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[edit] Fair use
Is anyone able to give some very clear guidance on what "fair use" is.
Each Yellowiki needs a description of the business under the Profile heading. Often the only practical place to get this is from a company's website - Is this fair use?
To enhance an entry it is possible to pull in the company logo, again from the company website. - Is this fair use?
The SIC and NAICS Industry codes are being used to classify each Yellowiki. Currently around 300 of the 2300 NAICS codes have been used. As Yellowiki expands more and more of these codes will be used. At some point, all, or nearly all, of them will be in use in Yellowiki and will be used in various indexes to search for information - Is this fair use?
--Abudhabidickie 15:55, 3 September 2006 (BST)
[edit] NAICS codes
How, exactly, are you envisioning copyright applying to a NAICS code? It's a raw datum. Uncle G 02:34, 6 September 2006 (BST)
- I assumed that the US government would own the copyright as they publish the NIACS classification. If there is no copyright then good, there is no problem. Thanks for the clarification. --Abudhabidickie 12:00, 6 September 2006 (BST)
- Two things. First: U.S. government works are in the public domain. Second: Copyright cannot apply to facts, such as the fact that company A has NAICS code Q, per the idea-expression divide. It applies to the expression of the fact. Uncle G 16:14, 6 September 2006 (BST)
[edit] Company logos
[edit] Blurbs
Copying a blurb from a web site isn't fair use. It's possible to argue that we aren't doing market harm to a company by copying its blurb, since companies usually don't sell their blurbs. But there's no reason to risk that untried notion, for the simple reasons that blurbs aren't in line with our Yellowikis:Neutral point of view policy in the first place. Blurbs speak in the first person. ("We can help you with ...". "We believe that ...". "We aim to ...".) To retain the NPOV, I don't see how Yellowikis articles can speak in the first person. "We" on a company's web site means the company, but "we" in a Yellowikis article means Yellowikis, or its editors. Yellowikis doesn't give endorsements. In actual listings, Yellowikis doesn't have a voice, and doesn't speak in the first person. Therefore straight copies of corporate blurbs aren't actually what we should be doing in the first place. Given that, concerns about fair use are moot. Uncle G 16:31, 6 September 2006 (BST)
- I would add:
- Fair Use: Copy: It is not recommended that you cut and paste copy from corporate websites - even if is it quite neutral in style. There is a template called {{Copyvio}} which has been used very occasionally. The Make Trade Fair page of the [[http://www.yellowikis.org/wiki/index.php?title=Make_Trade_Fair
