[Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] Citizendium, a new venture, will "fork" off from online encyclopedia Wikipedia]

[Jeffrey V. Merkey]

Mathias Schindler wrote:

>On 9/16/06, Florence Devouard <anthere at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>Hi Anthere.
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>What you did was violating the copyright in most of the states (anyone
>shouting "fair use! fair use!" here?). Foundation-l gets archived
>publicly, as far as I know. You are responsible for this incident and
>I would like you to
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>1. remove this message from the archive before the owner of the
>copyright DMCAs you, me and the Foundation.
>2. try not to repeat this.
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>As a board member, respecting copyright of third parties should not be
>an optional skill :)
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>Thanks,
>Mathias
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Looks like it was an email distributed article. If so, fair usewould 
apply to discussions of it here, unless we were using it "for profit". 
Removing it from the archive is prudent since this would be posting it 
on a website. The email discussion is probably ok.

:-)

Jeff