On 2/1/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/1/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote: You are forgetting de minimis.
Overlooking it in this case, but I doubt you could claim all the textual quotations in Wikipedia fall under that rule (i.e. not enough to copyright or insufficient infringement to be tortuous). Given that some copyright lawsuits have been over very small amounts of copying, I wouldn't want to rely solely on de minimis for legality - fortunately, we don't have to. Furthermore, explicitly or implicitly, part of the 'de minimis' calculation is that the copying is so small as to have little difficulty in using the defense of fair use successfully.
-Matt