Luiz Augusto wrote:
Anyone here is remembering that the Wikimedia Foundation is onwer of 9 free culture projects and ~730 wikis?
I'm not forgetting that. Some of those allow fair use, under diverse conditions. None can use material that is not in the PD in the US without claiming fair use.
See, if there *was* a server run by a UK or on UK servers, with material PD in the UK, but not in the US... how would it be used by WMF projects, and would it be legal to use it? Which project could claim fair use for which images? How would you look for them? Any USian who has rights to the material (in the US) would have a strong case against the WMF, I think.
But IANAL. I just think that we should collect and promote free content - not content soon-to-be-free-in-some-places.
-- Daniel