On 2/1/07, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/1/07, Matthew Brown <morven(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
You are forgetting de minimis.
Overlooking it in this case, but I doubt you could claim all the
textual quotations in Wikipedia fall under that rule (i.e. not enough
to copyright or insufficient infringement to be tortuous). Given that
some copyright lawsuits have been over very small amounts of copying,
I wouldn't want to rely solely on de minimis for legality -
fortunately, we don't have to. Furthermore, explicitly or implicitly,
part of the 'de minimis' calculation is that the copying is so small
as to have little difficulty in using the defense of fair use
successfully.
-Matt