[Wikipedia-l] Stallman on fair use

Tomasz Wegrzanowski taw at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Jun 25 19:45:28 UTC 2003


On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:15:02AM -0700, Axel Boldt wrote:
> > For quotations, we should be able to ensure that the quotation
> > is fair use for /every/ potential user, so that would be all right.
> 
> Even for quotations you need the word "likely" somewhere: your quoting
> a line of Martin Luther King in an article about him is certainly fair
> use; my selling t-shirts with that quote on it is certainly not.

Are you sure about that ?
In Poland I wouldn't hesitate for a moment before selling such t-shirts.
Short quotes receive next to zero protection here and I don't know why it
should be otherwise anywhere else.



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