Hoi, You can take more pictures of the same subject, you cannot have a bon mot repeated in a same way. If that is not obvious, what is.. Thanks, GerardM
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:58 PM, mike.lifeguard mike.lifeguard@gmail.com wrote:
I personally cannot imagine an US court accepting these number as "fair use" and I cannot see any educational use of these quotations legitimating an exception from our policy.
I'm afraid I don't understand how we reconcile the principle that WMF is supposed to provide freely-licensed content, and the Wikiquote project is apparently chock-full of so-called fair use. This is far worse than
simply
incorporating fair use media (which is not permitted on many projects for principled reasons). I can understand a Wikiquote containing quotes which have fallen out of copyright and I think such a project would be
wonderful.
But using fair use to compile quotes seems to me to be a bad idea
regardless
of how many there are. So whether a court would accept a fair use defence
is
rather immaterial to me - I am more concerned with the principle of
having
an entire article/page of solely fair use content. For a WMF project,
this
seems nonsensical.
Mike
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Exactly. While there is certainly merit in collecting free quotes (mostly from the public domain), it makes no sense that such blanket fair use would be seen as acceptable to the core mission of providing _free_ content.
We have a policy to limit fair use media, why not one for text?
-Chad
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