On 1/19/06, Haukur Þorgeirsson haukurth@hi.is wrote:
I was very involved in the fair use project until a few months ago when I realised that there was no hope and "fair use" will destroy wikipedia. I am now mostly contributing to commons and writing a few articles. I am still interested (when I get time) in writing tools to make it easier to fork a free version of wikipedia without fair use images.
Every other article I write quotes a copyrighted text (=fair use). You might have a hard time yanking that out :)
Regards, Haukur
Short quotes of text also tend to be the kind of fair dealing which is broadly accepted by all countries and is essentially indistinguishable from "not copyrighted".
Fair use, in general, is a whole different beast.
Anthony