Hi,
On 3/29/07, Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez(a)gmail.com> wrote:
About the board resolution and wikiquote.
It says that now projects can't hold nonfree content unless they
develop an exemption policy.
I agree.
Wikiquotes host mostly content under some sort of
exemption (for
instance, when quoting from TV series). Is the resolution meaning that
all wikiquotes have to develop a specific EDP for TEXT ?
As long as the language project would like to host such copyrighted
materials, I think so. Since those materials are mostly not released
under free license but introduced into the project as fairuse or other
legal excemption. On English Wikipedia Village pump, JeffQ pointed out
we would need a sort of [[WQ:EDP]]. Personally I support this idea.
As far as I know, some Wikiquotes like Japanese don't follow the
course and accept only free/PD materials, for your information. Under
the Japanese jurisdiction, there is no fairuse but "fair quotation" -
it allows you only you need the cited materials as a secondary part of
your whole creation: it means a set of quotes of a living poet on her
Wikipedia article will be okay, but an Wikiquote article which has
only quotes is not okay. For such projects, there is no room for
WQ:EDP unless they declair to follow only US law, but it wouldn't be a
wise way (people living in Japan who may be the majority of website
visitors will take a legal risk in reuse).
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