[WikiEN-l] Re: Fair use images on user pages and enforcement

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Thu Jan 19 18:17:56 UTC 2006


Haukur Þorgeirsson wrote:

>>I was very involved in the fair use project until a few months ago
>>when I realised that there was no hope and "fair use" will destroy
>>wikipedia. I am now mostly contributing to commons and writing a few
>>articles. I am still interested (when I get time) in writing tools
>>to make it easier to fork a free version of wikipedia without fair use
>>images.
>>    
>>
>Every other article I write quotes a copyrighted text (=fair use). You
>might have a hard time yanking that out :)
>
It's remarkable that many of these discussions about fair use too often 
tend to reduce the scope of the discussion to fair use images.

Ec




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