[WikiEN-l] Copyright question

[Matthew Brown]

On 4/4/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Wikipedia allows fair use of copyrighted material, and furthermore it
> follows American copyright law rather than British so even if the BBC
> claims "the list is copyright us, don't touch!" and a British lawyer
> says "they're right, you know" that doesn't necessarily mean we can't
> include the list. It may be uncopyrighted in the US, and at the very
> least I expect it's easy fair use.

I suspect so too.  Of course, Wikipedia's US hosting doesn't affect
the legal liability of British contributors, who must follow UK
copyright law.

-Matt