On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Toby Bartels wrote:
Imran Ghory wrote:
My understanding of the GNU FDL is that we
can't incorporate "fair
use" material unless we implictly declare those sections as "Invariant
Sections".
What!? how could this possibly be?
Why would the GNU FDL be stricter than ordinary copyright law?
To ensure freedom to redistribute.
Otherwise someone could take a GNU FDL document add sections to it, and
claim that the additions were taken under "fair use" from another
document, now if someone else comes along who wants to modify the
additions they wouldn't be able to as the new "fair use" sections
wouldn't
be governed by GNU FDL.
This is starting to not make sense..How can having something more
restrictive possibly enhance freedom to redistribute?
The sections added to the GNU FDL document have nothing to do with "fair
use"; they are original work. The original work including the way that
the "fair use" material is integrated with it is subject to a new
copyright. Then, each time that another Wikipedian comes along and edits
that material, that editing too is the subject of a new copyright.
If one of our readers uses "fair use" material from Wikipedia or uses
our GNU FDL material on a "fair use" basis, then it is his new fair use
claim that is the basis for him to be judged.
There is nothing in fair use that requires use with variations. IIRC
the courts have allowed changes for parody as fair use.
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