Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:25:47PM -0500, Anthony DiPierro wrote:
Not sure what's *horrible* about no derivative works. Wikipedia doesn't need to alter most images. I'd take cc-nd over copyrighted with fair use. If cc-nd is completely unacceptable, then so is fair use, right?
Right. "Fair use" is completely unacceptable.
Tomasz is speaking for himself, not for me, nor the Wikimedia Foundation, nor the FSF, nor in the true spirit of freedom.
Under Tomasz's interpretation, it would be impossible for us to even quote from a copyrighted book in an article about the author of that book. This is not freedom, this is copyright paranoia.
We do need to be careful about "fair use", because it does raise some potential issues for some re-users. And we should strongly prefer freely licensed alternatives where they are available. But fair use (or "fair dealing" as it is called in most other countries and under the Berne convention) is acceptable.
--Jimbo