[WikiEN-l] Copyright question

John Lee johnleemk at gmail.com
Tue Apr 10 13:16:15 UTC 2007


On 4/10/07, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
>
> Just that it's ridiculous to do so, and that it
> doesn't really matter because use of such a tiny amount of copyrighted
> materials is almost always fair use, especially in the context of an
> encyclopedia article about it, distributed by a non-profit charity.


Just a side-note, without any comment on the debate concerning list
copyright: we intentionally restrict how we use fair use so that it would
not hurt downstream users who happen not to be non-profit charities like us.
That's why [[WP:FU]] is more restrictive than US law.

Johnleemk


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