[WikiEN-l] "Taxman denies Wikipedia UK charity status"

James Farrar james.farrar at gmail.com
Thu Apr 30 07:32:10 UTC 2009


2009/4/30 Andrew Lih <andrew.lih at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:06 PM,  <wjhonson at aol.com> wrote:
>> Gwern is criticizing the article.  The Wiki-En operates under US
>> copyright law.  In the US you may quote an entire copyrighted work if
>> your purpose is to criticize/critique it.
>
> Unfortunately, this is not an accurate reading of fair use.
>
> Take note of item 3 in the US Copyright site:
> http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

Which does not state that an entire copyrighted work may never be quoted.



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