[Foundation-l] Board meeting in Rotterdam later this week

[Matthew Brown]

On 1/12/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
> Keeping aside the "fair use text quotations" (what the??), are you
> sure you're speaking for everyone when you say "we" there? Somehow I
> feel certain I'm not the only one who would like to get rid of fair
> use on en.wp, and envisages a happy English Wikipedia future without
> this crutch.

The 'we' corresponded to fair use text.

In the modern world in which everything is copyrighted, everything
written or recorded by anyone is copyrighted.  We can only quote
people, books, news media etc. through fair use.  Without the ability
to quote e.g. politician's statements, what the news media said about
something, etc etc, it would be a lot harder to write a factual
encyclopedia.

This stuff happens so much and so naturally that nobody realises "fair
use" (or its equivalent in other legal systems) is what it relies on.
Fair Use isn't just for images.

-Matt