[WikiEN-l] Nuke [[WP:CITE]] and [[WP:RS]]

[The Cunctator]

On 1/25/07, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/25/07, Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > The Cunctator wrote:
> > >
> > > Some people are definitely descending into copyright paranoia...
> > >
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Abramoff_scotland_small.jpg
> > >
> > What, having your copyrighted work introduced into a trial means your
> > lose all your rights to it? If so, that would be useful, since Disney
> > has been in court a few times. Maybe Mickey Mouse has been PD all this
> > time and we didn't even know it! And haven't there been a bunch of
> > movies involved in court cases too? Free movie uploads tonight!
> >
> > :-)
>
> It's been established in the US that you lose trade secret status with
> stuff in open court filings (hence a lot of sealed filings in civil
> cases), and that copyrighted stuff doesn't lose copyright but enters
> the "suitable for fair use in coverage in the media and legal
> commentary and the like" realm.


Which if I put on my copyright-paranoid hat I would say is insufficient for
Wikipedia (aka "FAIR USE ISN'T FREE USE") but taking it off and being a
practical Wikipedia I would say is plenty sufficient.

In other words I don't think Wikipedia should (in this regard) hold itself
to a higher copyright standard than the New York Times.