[Foundation-l] Fair use being badly abused on en.wikipedia

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
This whole issue is moot when we only use material that is compatible with
our license. Fair use is not. When someone "erred" it is enough reason to
take it down anyway. NB there is material where there just is no appropriate
license. A seperate licence for logos is something i have argued about
before :)
Thanks,
    GerardM

On Jan 7, 2008 10:12 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm less concerned with the Foundation being sued (because we are
> protected in most cases, both by our ability to respond to takedown
> notices and our educational purpose) and more concerned by the
> vulnerability of content reusers to suit. Our policy on free content
> is not to protect *us* - if that were the case, we could just request
> permission to use whole troves of content and be done. The policy
> protects those who, through our license, reuse our content for their
> own purposes. They are potentially much more liable to suit and this
> liability for them violates our goal to assemble a completely reusable
> base of knowledge.
>
> The best way to protect those who wish to utilize our content under
> its license is to ensure that we adhere to it - or change it. The best
> way to ensure our compliance is by guarding the insertion of non-free
> content - not laboriously deleting it once its eventually noticed.
>
> Nathan
>
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