For the most part, there seems to be a strong consensus that we should
steer clear of the boundries we could push fair use (or in many of our
cases, such as mine, fair dealing) to.
As an educational resource - there's probably a lot of space - I'll
warn you that I live in a foreign socialist country where we don't
believe in copyrights or suing people, so my advice may not be all
that great.
The issue is - we want to provide a free encyclopaedia for downstream
users, who may be commercial in nature. How do we be free while still
being an encyclopaedia? How do we be an encyclopaedia while still be
free? Tricky ...
WilyD
On 9/10/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I am not a US lawyer, nor is [[Pamela Jones]] of
[[Groklaw]]. But
here's some food for thought:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070907195435565
Despite my personal fondness for slash-and-burning fair abuse on en:wp
and taking away children's eyecandy, I remain a big fan of fair use,
because quotation is a necessary part of being able to talk about
something. [[Golan v. Gonzales]] (that's a red link. Could someone
please write the article?) is the US 10th Circuit Court of Appeals
saying it is too.
So what's Wikipedia and Wikimedia's duty to exercise that right in the
pursuit of educational value?
- d.
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