[WikiEN-l] Fair use in the UK

[Optim]

I am against the use of "fair use" images and
other material.

Whenever I use Wikipedia I want to be sure that I
can redistribute and modify any content I find in
it under the terms of GFDL.

So a ban on fair use material seems reasonable
and desired to me.

Perhaps we could divide the English Wikipedia in
an "American Wikipedia" and an "International
Wikipedia" (or "Pure GFDL Wikipedia") where the
American edition would allow fair use material
and the International edition would be just a
copy (done automatically by software) without
fair use material (software should have a
checkbox "Fair use" in the Upload function so the
copy routine would just copy all content not
marked as "Fair use").

--Optim


--- Jimmy Wales <jwales at bomis.com> 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
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