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.