[Foundation-l] Re: Copyright and local liability

[Delirium]

Jimmy Wales wrote:

>Second, for the case of non-bogus complaints (under German law) it makes
>sense (usually) for us to comply with them out of the interest of
>maximal reusability.  This is a huge grey area, but for example the
>German Wikipedia policy of "no fair use" seems sensible to me.
>  
>
This one I find particularly bizarre, because languages are hardly 
confined within countries---there are plenty of German editors on en:, 
which permits fair use, and plenty of non-German editors on de:, which 
doesn't.

-Mark