[Foundation-l] Wikiquote

[Chad]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:58 PM, mike.lifeguard
<mike.lifeguard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>I personally cannot imagine an US court accepting these number
>>as "fair use" and I cannot see any educational use of these quotations
>>legitimating an exception from our policy.
>
> I'm afraid I don't understand how we reconcile the principle that WMF is
> supposed to provide freely-licensed content, and the Wikiquote project is
> apparently chock-full of so-called fair use. This is far worse than simply
> incorporating fair use media (which is not permitted on many projects for
> principled reasons). I can understand a Wikiquote containing quotes which
> have fallen out of copyright and I think such a project would be wonderful.
> But using fair use to compile quotes seems to me to be a bad idea regardless
> of how many there are. So whether a court would accept a fair use defence is
> rather immaterial to me - I am more concerned with the principle of having
> an entire article/page of solely fair use content. For a WMF project, this
> seems nonsensical.
>
> Mike
>
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Exactly. While there is certainly merit in collecting free quotes
(mostly from the public domain), it makes no sense that such
blanket fair use would be seen as acceptable to the core mission
of providing _free_ content.

We have a policy to limit fair use media, why not one for text?

-Chad