On 3/10/06, Paweł Dembowski <fallout(a)lexx.eu.org> wrote:
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
It is likely that in the case of 'fair
use' the content would remain
fair use for a large majority of the downstream uses for content on
Wikipedia.
Actually, most of the content is "fair use" only to United States
users.
It's worse than that, it's only "fair use" for use within the
United
States. Which means if an American wants to distribute a copy of
Wikipedia to someone in Africa, they have to break the law.
And I'd dispute that fair use by Wikipedia means fair use by a large
majority of the downstream users. Wikipedia can and will get away
with a lot of things that others can't and won't.
Anthony