I am against the use of "fair use" images and other material.
Whenever I use Wikipedia I want to be sure that I can redistribute and modify any content I find in it under the terms of GFDL.
So a ban on fair use material seems reasonable and desired to me.
Perhaps we could divide the English Wikipedia in an "American Wikipedia" and an "International Wikipedia" (or "Pure GFDL Wikipedia") where the American edition would allow fair use material and the International edition would be just a copy (done automatically by software) without fair use material (software should have a checkbox "Fair use" in the Upload function so the copy routine would just copy all content not marked as "Fair use").
--Optim
--- Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com wrote:
It has been called to my attention that the concept of "fair use" may be significantly more restricted in the UK than in the US, to the point that most of what is fair use in the US may not be in the UK.
If that's true, then we need to radically reassess our policy on fair use images, likely restricting or even eliminating them entirely, even though everything we're doing on our site is totally valid for us, we need to be extremely sensitive to the needs of people who might seek to reuse our content.
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