[Foundation-l] Re: Copyright and local liability

Delirium delirium at hackish.org
Tue Jun 14 17:58:06 UTC 2005


Robert Scott Horning wrote:

> The problems seem to be particularly rough with photographic images 
> and audio recordings, as most textual information on the Wikimedia 
> projects is original material where fair-use questions are not even a 
> problem.

In terms of word count that's certainly true, but we use a *lot* of 
fair-use textual material as well.  Many articles about copyright books, 
for example, contain short quotations from them.

-Mark




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