[Foundation-l] Is there a good reason to delete the Burj Al Arab?

Muhammad Yahia shipmaster at gmail.com
Mon Mar 14 18:28:01 UTC 2011


Arabic Wikipedia has a fair-use policy, but it is more strict than en.wp.

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Hans A. Rosbach
<hans.a.rosbach at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 13 March 2011 22:14, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 13 March 2011 18:25, Hans A. Rosbach <hans.a.rosbach at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >> The English Wikipedia has a fair use policy, I know of no other
> > Wikipedia
> > > that has one. The statement "We can claim fair use when using images
> like
> > > that on
> > > Wikipedia" is correct for English Wikipedia, but not for the other
> > > Wikipedias.
> >
> > When I said "can" I was talking from a legal perspective. The law is
> > the same regardless of what language the content is in.
> >
> > Ok, I took it to be according to our policy. I'm not a lawyer, so in that
> respect I just have to take your word for it.
>
> Like the Danish, we in Norwegian (bokmål) have no fair use. It has been
> several years and my memory of the discussion might be wrong, but when we
> adopted our image policy I believe arguments against fair use included that
> we could not legally use it. Whether we can and whether it should in that
> case be policy are different questions, only the latter do I have views on.
>
> Hans A Rosbach
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