On 9/26/07, Rich Holton <richholton(a)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.