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

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
What is ambiguous about it ? It is just that some people are not prepared to
live with a Wikipedia that complies with its own license.
Thanks,
     GerardM

On Jan 7, 2008 7:35 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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