On 19/12/2007, Brian McNeil brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org wrote:
It isn't as simple as that. What may be fair use on Wikipedia might not be fair use on another WMF project. Eg, an image from a news agency could be F.U. for Wikipedia but not for Wikinews. This - as I understand it - is one of the reasons why EDP/Fair Use has to be per project/language.
Which is why the definition of fair use used on the English Wikipedia is far stricter than the legal definition. I think the idea is that we only use things under fair use if people reusing our content can do the same (which is why we don't accept non-commercial use only, etc. licenses).