[Foundation-l] Litigation costs

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Tue Jan 8 20:45:08 UTC 2008


On Jan 8, 2008 1:20 PM, Mike Godwin <mgodwin at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Yes, of course the Foundation has defenses under DMCA. But those who
> use our content may not. Are you proposing that we allocate $200K to
> defend those who use project content because we told them it was okay
> to do so per fair use doctrine?
>
As the only one who mentioned the DMCA in this thread I'll pretend
that question was for me.  And the answer is, no, I'm not.

I'm all for removing non-free content despite a claim that it is "fair
use" and therefore legal.  Besides the obvious argument that a free
encyclopedia should contain free content, I think such mixing of free
and non-free content goes against the spirit if not the letter of the
GFDL.  But I'm also for being honest about the reasons that content is
removed.




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