[Wikipedia-l] Fair Use material in Wikipedia

[Sean Barrett]

I find this entire argument about "fair use" images annoying.  When I
contacted Her Majesty's Stationery Office to inquire about the use of
Crown Copyright material, I was told that Wikipedia could use that
material as long as we used it accurately and not disparagingly -- no
problem -- but that we also had to require that anyone else using it
had to also comply with those restrictions.  Opinion was overwhelming
that since we can't pass on those restrictions, even though we have no
problem complying with them ourselves, we can't use the material.

What's the difference?

-- 
 Sean Barrett
 sean at epoptic.com