Steve Bennett wrote:
On 6/2/07, Sean William sean.william.g@gmail.com wrote:
The idea of uploading BJAODN to a Wikia site is a blatant infringement of the GFDL.
I don't agree. By definition BJAODN are bad jokes and nonsense. Not serious contributions to Wikipedia. Not contributions whose owners are going to care rat's arse about what happens to them. There is no sense in spending any time worryng aobut what whether copying "JOSH IS GAY FNORD FNORD" without correct attribution violates GFDL or not. The day that someone shows up claiming that we're violating their copyright by keeping their contribution without correct attribution is the day we should worry about it.
Remember that the content reuse argument doesn't apply: the Wikipedia namespace is not reused by other sites.
The fourth factor for fair use relates to damaging the copyright owner's sales of the material. If the jokes are as bad as Sean claims whose sales could we possibly be damaging.
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