[Wikipedia-l] Copyright violations

[Ray Saintonge]

Imran Ghory wrote:

>On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
>>>>The sections added to the GNU FDL document have nothing to do with "fair 
>>>>use"; they are original work.  
>>>>
>>>You misunderstand, I wsa trying to give an example which the "fair
>>>use" doctrine could be used to exploit the GNU FDL. I could write a
>>>document on my computer and then incorporate parts of that document as
>>>"fair use" into the GNU FDL articles, no-one else would then be able to
>>>modify those sections as they wouldn't be licenced under the GNU FDL.
>>>
>>Let me see if I'm misunderstanding this correctly!  Are you suggesting 
>>that you could take an extract from your own previously unpublished 
>>original work and claim that the extract was subject to "fair use" 
>>rules?  IMHO it seems that fair use doesn't apply because you already 
>>have the permission of the original author.
>>
>
>Just assume for arguments sake that you had a seperate legal entity who
>entered it into the article. For instance a dummy organization. The rest
>of the arguement is sound.
>
For it to be sound you and the dummy organization would need to be 
dealing at arm's length, and not acting collusively.
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