[WikiEN-l] Fair use issues; we need serious help

[Steve Summit]

Bryan Derksen wrote:
> A person who wants to take Wikipedia's database and set up another
> encyclopedia site doing the same things that Wikipedia does _is_ free
> to do so, even with the fair use material, since the fair use exemption
> is not Wikipedia-specific but rather _use_-specific. If we can do it,
> they can do it.

Furthermore (and I suspect this point has probably been made
already, but it's worth making again) if they have a problem
with fair-use images, they can trivially strip them out of the
database, since we bend over backwards to tag them as such.