On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 11:49:12AM -0700, Daniel Mayer wrote:
Marco wrote:
No, you lose much more. You can not easily combine the content of two "free" encyclopedias and get something that is "free". You can not copy images from the English Wikipedia to the German Wikipedia anymore because the "fair use" right works not this way in Germany.
What? Since when has the German Wikipedia moved to a German-based server?
Well, I know for a fact that it hasn't so German law has no bearing on the legality of having "fair user" (per US law) images on the German Wikipedia.
However, those people who are subject to German law may be legally barred from uploading such images. But there are plenty of German-speaking Wikipedians living outside of Germany to do this.
There would be a problem if they wanted to distribute Wikipedia in Germany, as a mirror, on CDs, printed etc. We really don't want to lose such right just to have 0.1% more images.