[WikiEN-l] Re: U.S. copyright law and European servers

Christopher Larberg christopherlarberg at gmail.com
Thu Jul 14 23:06:05 UTC 2005


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On 7/14/05, Zoney <zoney.ie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It's people having their heads in the sand is what it is.
> 
> The incorporation of "fair use" images in Wikipedia ensures that the
> encyclopaedia as a whole cannot straightforwardly be
> used/redistributed outside of the US.
> 
> The grand theories of a free resource for all ring hollow with so much
> work required to create a redistribution of the encyclopaedia,
> omitting the non-GFDL images, but including all the great free licence
> ones that are there.
> 

Which is why images are tagged. All one has to do is run an SQL query
to remove images that have pages tagged with non-free licenses. It's
not our fault that people are so anal about their copyrights.

- --Slowking Man

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