[Wikipedia-l] IBM analyzing Wikipedia page histories

[Jimmy Wales]

Fernanda Viegas wrote:
>put a note on our gallery page saying "Article text (c) 2003
>Wikipedia, reproduced by permission." Sorry for any confusion, this is
>a confusing area! (in fact, wasn't there recently a whole thread on
>fair use on this mailing list?)

You don't need permission, it's clearly fair use.  And the question of
who, exactly, could give permission, is thorny.  :-) I don't think
permission enters into it at all, actually.

I don't think the people who raised that question were considering
fair use at the time.

--Jimbo