On 1/14/07, David Strauss david@fourkitchens.com 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.
However there certian common factors that appear in copyright world wide. US far use law is very non standard. If wikipedia were in the UK I doubt we would be makeing use of the provision that audio works enter the public domain after 50 years since it is so non standard that the files would be useless outside the uk. The same is true with regards to a lot of fair use stuff.