[Foundation-l] precisions about the recent WMF "fair use" decision

[Ray Saintonge]

David Monniaux wrote:

>Geni said:
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>>>/ To me, these include, among others://
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>/>/ * military operations and hardware
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>>US military photos and trade fairs. Also various open days. About the
>>only think you won't get is NK stuff such as Ch'onma-ho
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>So, only US hardware and activities. So much for NPOV. (There are tons of interesting things
>that you won't see unless you're in operations. Trade fairs will show only small arms.)
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>>/ * spacecraft
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>>NASA for a lot of stuff and countries tend to put a lot of their space
>>hardware on display
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>NASA => only US
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>You've therefore made the point that our current policies favor the broadcasting of the
>activities of the US government. So much for NPOV. :-)
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As much as I enjoy blaming the United States for most of the world's 
ills, this is one point where that would have no justification.

If the Europeans want to whinge about the availability of American 
material being a violation of NPOV they have one excellent solution: 
Make their own material free.

Ec