[Wikipedia-l] Fair use (Alex, Brion et Tarquin)

[Alex R.]

"Jimmy Wales" <jwales at bomis.com> said:

>...  we should take care that when we
> do rely on fair use, we do so in such a way that almost anyone could
> rely on a fair use defense for any plausible re-use of our content.
> 
> To take the easiest possible example, a quote of a few sentences of a
> copyrighted novel in an article about the author of that novel.  This
> is fair use for us, and it's also going to be fair use for just about
> any plausible re-use of our content.

Very well said and a good example.

Alex756