[Foundation-l] Is fair use a right as well as a defense?

[Delirium]

Anthony wrote:
>> David Gerard wrote:
>>     
>> So what's Wikipedia and Wikimedia's duty to exercise that right in the
>> pursuit of educational value?
>>     
>
> Wikipedia and Wikimedia's duty to exercise that right is to exercise
> it to the maximum degree necessary "to empower and engage people
> around the world to collect and develop educational content under a
> free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it
> effectively and globally."  This, in my opinion, is very little.
>   

I guess it depends on what you mean by "very little". Certainly classes 
of fair use, or its equivalent in other countries, are pretty much 
essential to our mission, like being able to quote from news reports and 
works of literature or speeches.

-Mark