On 19 Jan 2006, at 10:12, Haukur Þorgeirsson 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 :)
I have no problem with fair use of text in wikipedia.
Fair use of images is just a morass of copyright violation. In theory it would be ok to allow some, but clearly that cant happen until we get rid of all the rubbish claimed as "fair use" now, none of which is.
Justinc