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[edit] Law that proscribes this policy

Can anyone provide reference to the state law that proscribes this copyright policy? Thanks. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 23:56, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia:Fair use and United States Copyright Act of 1976. These two pages help to describe the basic tenets of fair use, which is the method by which we are able to use many of our images here on the Wikipedia. The basic reasoning with this is that a fair use of the image does not require the copyright holder's permission. Notably, "Fair use describes conditions under which copyrighted material may be used without permission." Thanks. -Scm83x 01:40, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Thing is, the template is claiming "no rights reserved", which is almost the exact opposite of "fair use". --Carnildo 09:38, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Oh, I see. Would we be able to avoid that by changing the language from "free use" to "fair use"? I didn't even read that difference. Of course, I didn't write the template in the first place. Thanks; I hope we get this figured out! -Scm83x 15:03, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Would something like this work better?

This copyrighted image was published by an agency of the Government of the State of Texas and the individual who uploaded this work and first used it in an article, as well as subsequent persons who place it into articles, asserts that this use qualifies as fair use of the material under United States copyright law with a credited citation of its source.

Thanks! -Scm83x 17:52, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

How does that differ from the regular {{fairuse}} template? --Carnildo 19:09, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't really know ;-). I guess these four templates should go up for delteion and be replaced by fairuse templates? What do you think?

Sounds good to me. --Carnildo 20:51, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

If the state government changes its rules on using state documents, then it will be difficult to tease back out state issued documents from Wikipedia. Thats why each state has its own template. Some states changed rules on birth certificates after 9/11 and others didn't. Currently this is the only way to distinguish official state papers. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 04:06, 31 July 2006 (UTC)