On 7/26/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
Todd, fundamentally, here's the policy:
Fair use is free, too.
That's a novel interpretation of free content, and at odds with the Foundation's mission statement[1] and [[Wikipedia:Non-free content]]. Fair use is *not* free. It's legal (if truly fair use), an important right, and there are certainly occasions where Wikipedia can and should make use of fair use. However, any material used under fair use remains copyrighted. It is not in the public domain, nor is it freely licensed (or else we wouldn't have to use fair use doctrine).
Fair use is non-free. We may want to use non-free material at times because the benefit to "encyclopedia" outweighs the cost to "free", but we do need to recognize that there is some cost there.
-- Jonel