On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 06:09:32 -0700, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Sj wrote:
I think the decision re: media standards, and the decision re: fair use images, are closely related.
Only in the sense that they fall under the general heading of "how can we best create a GNU-free encyclopedia?"
The key difference is that fair use is a perfectly legitimate copyright doctrine which ought to be expanded considerably.
The situation with patents is quite different.
Fair enough.
If people are strongly against allowing any encumbered content in the public view of the projects, perhaps we could have a special holding area for uploaded content which does not meet high standards of free-formatting, but could be converted -- providing for a way to indicate via links? that such content exists in association with a page -- rather than disallowing it altogether.
I have no objection to something like this. There is no harm that I can think of in empowering people to use legal means (but not necessarily _GNU free_ means, if that's impossible) to help others have free content.
Great. Perhaps we could use the same holding area for images and other media with "unknown" copyright status, and with possible-copyvio texts. Though each class of item requires a different kind of effort to convert it (where possible) to a valid WM entry, all are being quarantined because the purity of their freedom is in doubt.
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