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

[jkelly at fas.harvard.edu]

Quoting Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>:

> However, this does not appear to be the case on itwiki:
> http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciale:PuntanoQui/Template:Copyrighted
>
> Where very many of these images could have be recreated as free works
> by anyone.. many of them are even the works of wikipedians but they
> are not released as free content.

That's disappointing to read.  I imagine, however, that this also happens on
projects disallowing "permission only for Wikipedia" but allowing fair use.

                Jkelly