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

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
I do not think so. Please read what this thread is about.
thanks,
    GerardM

On Jan 8, 2008 2:44 PM, Petr Kadlec <petr.kadlec at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 08/01/2008, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It is not the Wikimedia Foundation that operates on the assumption that
> Fair
> > use and the GFDL are incompatible, it is the English language Wikipedia
> that
> > does.
> > […]
> > This means that
> > Fair Use is mainly argued for English language content. The value of
> Fair
> > Use is therefore not as great as the proponents want us to believe.
>
> I believe you are mixing use of fair use images (and EDP) with fair
> use as a much broader concept. Fair use is (AFAICT, IANAL) an instance
> of "fair practice" mentioned even in the Berne Convention. Without
> fair use, you couldn't even include textual quotations. And an
> encyclopedia that does not cite anyone is hardly a valuable
> encyclopedia, IMHO.
>
> -- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]
>
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