[Wikipedia-l] Stallman on fair use

Axel Boldt axelboldt at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 15 23:57:20 UTC 2003


--- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller at gmx.de> wrote:
> Jimmy-
> > Axel Boldt wrote:
> >>  * the material can be used under the [[fair use]] doctrine and
> >>    such fair use will likely extend to all third party users of
> >>    Wikipedia
> 
> > Well, certainly I think that's the right approach to take.
> 
> I don't think we should exclude fair use material that could not be
> used in a copy of Wikipedia that is sold for profit. I think we
should
> flag it, but I see no reason to exclude it.

The reason is that we want to produce a freely distributable and
modifiable encyclopedia.

Axel

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