[WikiEN-l] Dead wikipedians and how to really make a project boring to death

Anthony wikilegal at inbox.org
Thu Jul 27 12:21:15 UTC 2006


On 7/26/06, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think you are all missing Antheres point. Who cares whether it's
> fair use or not? Do we really have to be so anal about the rules that
> we will infact bring this to IfD, instead of just quietly ignoring the
> copyright issue in this very special unique case. We are people, for
> christs sake, not automatons! Sometimes, process is not that
> important.
>
> --Oskar

I don't see why it's such a special unique case.  Wikipedia's
copyright policies are flawed, and this is one example of it.

By the way, isn't there a rule that fair use only applies in articles?

Anthony



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