On 9/26/07, Rich Holton richholton@gmail.com wrote:
Your question could just as easily be "What group or groups of people are prevented from learning from Wikipedia when blatant copyright violations are included?" Many authors would not care, and can always issue a take-down notice if they do.
It could put downstream users of Wikipedia's supposedly "free" content in a legally sticky situation, particularly if they are profiting from said use.
I am not educated in all the legal issues, but I understand that "fair use" images creates more legal issues than free licensed images, especially when you go to distributing to those who do not have access to the internet. Is distributing to non-internet connected users not also part of our goal?
Yes, even the Chinese kids of popular cliche, but god help them if their 99c coloring books contain copyvios which were dumped/mirrored/whatever before being deleted from the article in question. —C.W.