[WikiEN-l] Fair use in the UK

[Nathan Russell]

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Jimmy Wales wrote:
| It has been called to my attention that the concept of "fair use" may
| be significantly more restricted in the UK than in the US, to the
| point that most of what is fair use in the US may not be in the UK.
|
| If that's true, then we need to radically reassess our policy on fair
| use images, likely restricting or even eliminating them entirely, even
| though everything we're doing on our site is totally valid for us, we
| need to be extremely sensitive to the needs of people who might seek
| to reuse our content.
|
| --Jimbo

Jimbo, to what extent do we need to respect the policies of other
nations, and which other nations?  No offense is meant to the many UK
folks on this list, but I would not want wikipedia to have to remove all
content that the Chinese or Saudi government objected to.

Nathan
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