[WikiEN-l] Easter Bradford

Mon Aug 11 02:58:21 UTC 2003



>At 09:41 AM 8/10/2003, you wrote:
>
>>--- Jimmy Wales <jwales at bomis.com> wrote:
>> > In the year in the future when I win both the Nobel
>> > Peace Prize and
>> > the Grammy for my a capella lipsynched rendition of
>> > old Milli Vanilli
>> > classics, I will permit an article about me.
>> >
>> > --Jimbo
>>
>>Even if you were just CEO of Bomis and Wikipedia was
>>started by someone else, you'd still deserve an
>>article. But as head of a giant free encyclopedia
>>project, the biggest and most useful wiki in
>>existance, you definately deserve one. There are
>>already stubs about you in other langauages, such as
>>polish. Why can't these accomplishments be enough?
>>-LittleDan
>
>Dante wrote The irony here is that Jimbo can't really /prevent/ us from 
>creating an article about him without using a bit of heavy-handed 
>dictatorial power (which he usually seems loath to do).
>
>So, it would seem, that if enough of us think there ought to be an article 
>about him, his "permission" would be hardly necessary. :)
>
But the question is, would his picture be "fair use"  to use or might we get 
sued? :-)

JT

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