Jimmy Wales wrote:
Look, I appreciate people chiming in with information, but if you don't know what you're talking about, please don't chime in as if you are speaking authoritatively. This is an unmoderated list, so you're welcome to post, but really, I think a bit of restraint is in good taste.
For the record, the stuff that talthen@wp.pl wrote is all completely wrong, and has absolutely no applicability to anything we're discussing.
And a lot of stuff that other people are writing, though I prefer not to name names, is equally speculative and wrong.
--Jimbo _______________________________________________
Which is all fair enough and demonstrates the fact that we need proper advice on this subject.
With advice we can then make a proper policy, rather than going round in circles.
I think one problem here is that some contributors seem to presume that US law is the same as law in the rest of the world. This causes non US contributors to state the law in their country as they see it.
We need advice on not only what US law allows us to do (ie fair use etc) but what effect this would have on publishing the works in a country outside the US.
Caroline /Secretlondon