[Foundation-l] Fair use being badly abused on en.wikipedia

[Thomas Dalton]

On 07/01/2008, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Is it fair use?" is not the relevant question for inclusion, as
> Gerard pointed out very well. Our license requires that our content be
> reusable for any purpose, including commercial, and fair use content
> damages that goal. Therefore, the policy is that non-free content is
> prohibited, except when the content is essential and no free
> alternative is available and it meets US fair use requirements.

Absolutely. Our definition of fair use is intentionally much stricter
than the legal one. I don't think anyone is disputing the definition
given at the top of [[en:Wikipedia:Non-free content]], it just the
interpretation of that definition which is causing trouble.