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

geni geniice at gmail.com
Mon Jan 7 18:15:26 UTC 2008


On 07/01/2008, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> Your aim is different from the stated aim of producing a product that is
> freely licensed and everything to its content is permitted as per the
> license.

Given the existence of personality rights you've just tried to argue
against including pics of living people. Most randomly taken photos
will have some elements of unfreeness if you look hard enough.

> Both the GFDL and the CC-by-sa explicitly allow for the commercial
> application of our products.

So does fair use in certain situations.

-- 
geni



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