[WikiEN-l] Is fair use allowed on Meta?

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Tue May 1 10:53:34 UTC 2007


> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hotel_Wikipedia#Is_this_a_copyright_violation.3F
> Essentially it's a parody of a copyrighted song, and thus fair use. If
> this were on one of the Wikipedias, it would not be allowed, since it's
> not in article space. Does this also apply to Meta?

Legally, it's almost certainly ok. What is allowed on Meta is only a
subset of what is allowed by law, however, so I don't know if there
are any Meta policies which forbid it.



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