[WikiEN-l] "Taxman denies Wikipedia UK charity status"

[wjhonson at aol.com]

<<-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Lih <andrew.lih at gmail.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:01 am
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] "Taxman denies Wikipedia UK charity status"

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:06 PM,  <wjhonson at aol.com> wrote:
> Gwern is criticizing the article.  The Wiki-En operates under US
> copyright law.  In the US you may quote an entire copyrighted work if
> your purpose is to criticize/critique it.

Unfortunately, this is not an accurate reading of fair use.

Take note of item 3 in the US Copyright site:
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)>>
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You are misreading what they are stating.  They are not stating that 
you cannot use the entire work.  Just consider this example and you'll 
see why.  MadTV extracts an entire melody and then adds other words to 
it.  They repeat music videos, with the exact same melody and different 
words.

If you can answer how exactly they can get away with that, without 
needing any permission, and not in violation of copyright, then you can 
answer the question of what happened in this thread, when Gwern had to 
cite each section, to which Gwern was critiquing.  It is the same 
underlying issue.

Will Johnson