Am Freitag, 29. August 2003 18:01 schrieb Jimmy Wales:
Ulrich Fuchs wrote:
1) they quote more or less completely some
Wikipedia articles on their
gallery screenshots
(
http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/history/gallery.htm). They don't link
back to Wikipedia or mention the content to be under GNU FDL. Instead,
they put a (c) 2003 by IBM below their pictures.
These are good people, Fernanda Viegas in particular has written to me
and to the mailing list a few times. They don't mean any harm, as far
as that goes.
But ANYWAY, that particular type of use of our data qualifies VERY
WELL as 'fair use', which means that they can use it whether we like
it or not, license or no license.
I think, I have to start using smilies again, otherwise no one is realizing me
talking ironically. ;-)) There is no need to discuss the fair use issue, I
have no problems with IBM using Wikipedia that way, in fact, being reproduced
is what we want to; (however I doubt if that would really be "fair use" -
keep in mind that IBM even copyrights their screenshots, and think about the
curious ways to distribute the DeCSS algorithm) - But as I said, please
forget about that issue: The use by IBM is certainly nothing worth arguing
with them. They link to Wikipedia, that's giving publicity, and that's fine.
Second point - I am very interested in that paper and the editing patterns; I
believe the analysis will be based on the english Wikipedia, I'd like to see
if I recognize these patterns on the german Wikipedia, too!
Uli