On 9/27/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/27/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
We do not tolerate unfree text to any significant extent. We do tolerate a level of unfree media. Thus we put free media behind other content.
This is simply not true; we have significant (important informational content, useful) quotations from other works sprinkled liberally throughout the Encyclopedia.
And this is a good thing.
And this is entirely and unquestionably (by any reasonable person) legal under fair use.
Indeed, the whole reason fair use (or for example, in my jurisdiction fair dealing) exists is because governments recognise we cannot do things like write encyclopaedias or newspapers without invoking the principle of fair use.
That's probably worth repeating.
We cannot hope to write an encyclopaedia without invoking the principles of fair use, or fair dealings. Doesn't mean we need to invoke it to the maximum extent provided for by law, but without any at all, we cannot hope to write an encyclopaedia.
WilyD