[Foundation-l] Citizendium lizense

[Anthony]

On Nov 22, 2007 2:09 PM, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fair use applies to material published under GFDL as it does to
> material published under any license, or with no license at all, so
> one could quote a reasonable amount of GFDL material in an article
> under a more restrictive license published in Citizendium.
>
Yes, as long as you attribute the source I think you could get away
with a lot.  We're talking about a non-fiction encyclopedic work
distributed for free over the Internet, so that's three of the four
fair use criteria in your favor right there.

Of course, the same would presumably apply to the material published
in Citizendium, so the effectiveness of that restrictive license would
be equally limited.  I think Larry's way off when he suggests that
"CBS, Fox, the New York Times, English tabloids, Chinese propaganda
sheets, Yahoo!, Google, and all sorts of giant new media companies"
will be willing to pay large sums of money to license Citizendium
content if it's under CC-BY-NC.  They'll just use the content under
fair use and/or use Wikipedia content instead.  In fact, if
Citizendium becomes authoritative as they plan on doing, media
companies are going to prefer to cite and attribute quotes from it
rather than presenting its content as their own.