I just realized something, a site I posted on [[Wikipedia:Press coverage]] might also be breaking the GFDL. They list some text from one of our pages. See http://cgi.canoe.ca/Columnists/diotte_jul7.html, the SITE FOR SORE EYES article, which was in the Edmonton Sun. (my original link appears to no longer be valid).
-- Michael Becker
Michael Becker wrote:
I just realized something, a site I posted on [[Wikipedia:Press coverage]] might also be breaking the GFDL. They list some text from one of our pages. See http://cgi.canoe.ca/Columnists/diotte_jul7.html, the SITE FOR SORE EYES article, which was in the Edmonton Sun. (my original link appears to no longer be valid).
That's a pretty small excerpt, looks like fair use to me. It's not in Wikipedia's interest to get so prickly that reporters and writers deliberately avoid quoting it - or worse, that newspapers' and publishers' legal departments order their employees to stay away from Wikipedia altogether because they're tired of dealing with accusations of GFDL violations.
Stan
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Michael Becker wrote:
I just realized something, a site I posted on [[Wikipedia:Press coverage]] might also be breaking the GFDL. They list some text from one of our pages. See http://cgi.canoe.ca/Columnists/diotte_jul7.html, the SITE FOR SORE EYES article, which was in the Edmonton Sun. (my original link appears to no longer be valid).
That's a pretty small excerpt, looks like fair use to me. It's not in Wikipedia's interest to get so prickly that reporters and writers deliberately avoid quoting it - or worse, that newspapers' and publishers' legal departments order their employees to stay away from Wikipedia altogether because they're tired of dealing with accusations of GFDL violations.
I strongly agree with this. Copyright law is not trademark law. We can be selective in our enforcement without losing the copyright.
Regards,
Erik
I agree with Erik's tenor on the issue....
Besides, it helps to have friends who actually link back to your site, attribute to you whatever content they get from you and limit their use of your content to reasonable amounts....
Following that-- its *not nice to insult people who do something nice for you. ;)
-SV
Or *to you. :)
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Stan Shebs wrote:
one of our pages. See http://cgi.canoe.ca/Columnists/diotte_jul7.html,
That's a pretty small excerpt, looks like fair use to me. It's not in Wikipedia's interest to get so prickly that reporters and writers deliberately avoid quoting it - or worse, that newspapers' and publishers' legal departments order their employees to stay away from Wikipedia altogether because they're tired of dealing with accusations of GFDL violations.
I agree with Stan 100% here. What we want to watch out for are people who are not engaging in fair use of our material, particularly those with spammish sites, or those which appear to be attempting a proprietary fork, and so on.
For the most part, we can take a relaxed approach to this sort of thing. We want people to know about us, we want people to take our gift to humanity and use it well.
--Jimbo