[Foundation-l] Wikiquote

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
You can take more pictures of the same subject, you cannot have a bon mot
repeated in a same way. If that is not obvious, what is..
Thanks,
        GerardM

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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