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(a)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
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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