[Foundation-l] Board meeting in Rotterdam later this week

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Mon Jan 15 22:03:11 UTC 2007


David Strauss wrote:

>While I think fair use media is more integral to the English Wikipedia's
>content than you do, I agree with your reasoning. Whether or not we
>allow fair use, non-commercial media is unjustified.
>
>Can everyone here agree that non-commercial media is not a *substitute*
>for fair-use media?
>
Absolutely.  The two concepts depend on entirely different threads of 
legal thinking. 

I strongly support fair use/dealing, but fundamentally think that NC 
licences are based on a misapprehension that injects a kind of political 
statement into the licence.

Ec





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