[Foundation-l] Clearing up Wikimedia's media licensing policies

[Arne Klempert]

On 2/8/07, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 2/8/07, Frieda Brioschi <ubifrieda at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Italian community is not a lawyer. But WMF is free to pay a lawyer to
> > find an acceptable compromise, isn't it?
>
> That would be worth considering. The Italian chapter could play a
> coordinating role in such a project. A similar legal expertise was
> funded by the German chapter a while ago.

Oh, and since then it can be assumed common knowledge that a lot of
Wikiquote's content  is illegal in Germany. Not that anyone seems to
care... Great example ;)

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rechtsfragen_M%C3%A4rz_2005#III._Nutzung

4) Sind Zitaten- und Aphorismensammlungen zulässig, wenn die Texte
urheberrechtlich geschützten Werken entnommen werden?

Cheers,
Arne