Jimmy Wales wrote:
Second, for the case of non-bogus complaints (under
German law) it makes
sense (usually) for us to comply with them out of the interest of
maximal reusability. This is a huge grey area, but for example the
German Wikipedia policy of "no fair use" seems sensible to me.
This one I find particularly bizarre, because languages are hardly
confined within countries---there are plenty of German editors on en:,
which permits fair use, and plenty of non-German editors on de:, which
doesn't.
-Mark