On 1/19/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Haukur Þorgeirsson wrote:
I was very involved in the fair use project until a few months ago when I realised that there was no hope and "fair use" will destroy wikipedia. I am now mostly contributing to commons and writing a few articles. I am still interested (when I get time) in writing tools to make it easier to fork a free version of wikipedia without fair use images.
Every other article I write quotes a copyrighted text (=fair use). You might have a hard time yanking that out :)
It's remarkable that many of these discussions about fair use too often tend to reduce the scope of the discussion to fair use images.
Ec
Mostly because for the most part people seem to understand how to use fair use text (it is a bit hard to write a legit encyopedia article that uses quotes in a way that is not fair use).
-- geni