[WikiEN-l] Legal advice

Sat Jan 10 19:52:22 UTC 2004

Andrew Cleveland wrote:
> User:Anthony DiPierro claims on Wikipedia:Possible copyright infringements 
> that Wikipedia is violating his copyright by not releasing the entirety of 
> an article he modified under GFDL (Al Gore) including images, some of which 
> may have been used under fair use. The images were included after his 
> modifications. He claims the entire article, including images, must be 
> released under GFDL to avoid breaking the license. I'm not a lawyer, I'm 
> just confused (heh) and worried that this may become a problem.. probably 
> just me being weird.

I wonder if you could ask him to come to the mailing list and express
his concerns.  I'm not sure I understand what he's saying.

I've talked this fair use images issue over with a number of people,
including Larry Lessig and Richard Stallman, but it's still very
complex.

--Jimbo