[Wikipedia-l] Stallman on fair use

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 06:20:53PM +0100, Lee Pilich wrote:
> At 09:50 15/06/2003 -0700, Axel wrote:
> >Regarding RMS's statement that fair use materials do not pose a problem
> >in GFDL works, it would be good to know if he was aware or made aware
> >of the fact that what counts as fair use for one user in one context
> >may not count as fair use for some other use in some other context.
> 
> I'm probably misunderstanding something.

Yes

> Can somebody please explain to me why we, the editors of Wikipedia, should 
> be bothered about any context other than Wikipedia? I want to make the 
> WIkipedia as good as it can be, and if that involves using fair use 
> materials, then so be it. If somebody who makes a derivitive work from the 
> Wikipedia can't use our fair use materials as fair use because, say, 
> they're charging $50 for whatever product they've created, then I couldn't 
> care less.

That's a difference between having one www page of beer-free stuff (not much
different from online version of closed encyclopedias) and something that
allows creating wide range of speech-free content - textbooks, specialist
encyclopedias, science popularization books etc.