[Wikipedia-l] Fair use and GFDL

Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia at math.ucr.edu
Fri Nov 1 07:42:01 UTC 2002


>Short of dropping fair use materials altogether, we could clearly label
>the fair use status of images on the image description page, maybe even
>saying "This image is *not* under GFDL, it was copied from ... under
>the fair-use doctrine." And our [[Wikipedia:Copyrights]] should then
>contain a notice that for the license of images, the description page
>ought to be checked.

[[Wikipedia:Copyrights]] would also need to have a notice
that whenever we quote Dr. X in our biography of Churchill,
that the quotation is also not covered under the GFDL.
I certainly hope that it never has to come to that!


-- Toby



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