[WikiEN-l] Getting rid of bad fair use

[Michael Snow]

Anthony DiPierro wrote:

> On 5/19/06, Michael Snow <wikipedia at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> Anthony DiPierro wrote:
>>
>> >> As it is, it is easy for a company with
>> >> a huge legal staff to shut down small "fair users" with the threat of
>> >> endless, if futile, litigation. Lessig talks about a number of
>> >> instances where this happened in his book, _Free Culture_.
>> >
>> > Only if the fair users roll over and die, like Wikimedia is doing.
>>
>> Since you seem completely unaware of the occasions where the Wikimedia
>> Foundation has received complaints from copyright owners and told them,
>> "Fair use, so buzz off" (couched in more polite terms, of course),
>> perhaps you're not in a position to make informed comments on what
>> Wikimedia is doing.
>>
>> --Michael Snow
>
> I really don't see what Wikimedia has done on other occassions has to
> do with what they are doing on this occassion.

 From the message to which I was replying, you appeared to be talking 
about fair use law overall, not any particular instance. There have been 
several specific situations mentioned in this discussion. Perhaps next 
time you might be more precise if you're talking about only one, instead 
of making comments that sound like sweeping generalizations.

--Michael Snow