David Strauss wrote: You're arguing from the ridiculous premise that Wikipedia must be legal in every country. Even the topics of some articles aren't legal in some countries.
No, I'm not. I'm aware that this is impossible. But when you say that anyone should be able to reuse a whole Wikipedia article as is, you are making a ridiculous premise, because the very fact that Wikipedia can't be legal in every countru makes this impossible. Unless you intended "a US commercial organization can at least take whole Wikipedia pages and re-use them"
Now please, consider the following two as being the same image (they are not, but for the sake of exemplification they are).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Microsoft_Office_Word_2007.png
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immagine:MS_Office_Word.JPG
The image on en.wiki Â…qualifies as fair use
The image on it.wiki is tagged as copyrighted and used with permission (based on what's written here http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/permissions/default.mspx#ELC)
The image on it.wiki should be removed right?
Roberto (Snowdog)
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