On 19 Feb 2004, Gareth Owen wrote:
Fair use is illegal in many large countries outside the US.
But the Wikipedia servers are not in any of those countries, and so this is completely irrelevant.
Are we to scour the world for the most strict censorship laws in order to comply with those as well?
That won't leave much of an encyclopedia.
That's a valid argument, and my answer is that we stop where copyright laws end and cencorship laws start. It's pretty simple: If someone didn't explicitly create something for WIkipedia, explicitly allow us to use it, or explicitly make it public domain - then we don't use it.
Or in easier terms: We post whatever we make ourselves.
-- Daniel