[WikiEN-l] Getting rid of bad fair use

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sun May 21 06:53:40 UTC 2006


geni wrote:

>On 5/20/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Geni, I have to ask you to please stop opining on matters outside your
>>professional expertise.
>>    
>>
>Claiming fair use on a non copyright image strikes me as a tricky
>concept and one that is rather pointless in any case. Fair use images
>are copyvios. At best they are just copyvios that are allowed within
>the US. They are still however copyvios. If they were not you would
>not bother trying to claim fair use.
>
You may be surprised to read where the copyright law says that fair use 
is not an infringement of copyright.

There may be disputes over just what fair use is, but that's a 
different, and very much fact driven  matter.

Ec




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