The gallery of "fair use" full calendar pages
I recall a discussion, some time ago, where it was decided that using full scans of calendar pages could not be justified as fair use. The calendar is a collection of works, and a scan of one page or layout is a copy of a complete work. It also fails because of the effect on the work's value. If someone can come here and see each page, then they might not buy the calendar. The group of people who would visit this site and the group of people who would be interested in such a calendar overlaps considerably. I think those should probably be removed. --bp 07:29, October 11, 2014 (UTC)
- I agree and I'm one of those people you mention. If I could have found the images online I would never have purchased the calendar. I'm all for showing a cropped excerpt or a small promotional image that one can find on one of the websites that sell the calendar, but to display the entire image here seems to undermine the point of the calendar (and therefore ensure that we may not get any more in the years to come). Of course, after a year or two of release, and if the artist and/or publisher has released the full image/s into the public domain, then I see no reason why we can't display those images here. -- Cyfa (talk) 09:52, October 13, 2014 (UTC)
- OK, so after a quick search, I've discovered that Amazon are displaying the full January and February images, and StarTrek.com are showing the July and August images. So, I guess as those are the images displayed here they're OK to stay? -- Cyfa (talk) 10:11, October 13, 2014 (UTC)