[WikiEN-l] Getting rid of bad fair use

Sat May 20 19:13:00 UTC 2006

On 5/20/06, Michael Snow <wikipedia at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Anthony DiPierro wrote:
>
> > On 5/19/06, Michael Snow <wikipedia at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Anthony DiPierro wrote:
> >>
> >> >> As it is, it is easy for a company with
> >> >> a huge legal staff to shut down small "fair users" with the threat of
> >> >> endless, if futile, litigation. Lessig talks about a number of
> >> >> instances where this happened in his book, _Free Culture_.
> >> >
> >> > Only if the fair users roll over and die, like Wikimedia is doing.
> >>
> >> Since you seem completely unaware of the occasions where the Wikimedia
> >> Foundation has received complaints from copyright owners and told them,
> >> "Fair use, so buzz off" (couched in more polite terms, of course),
> >> perhaps you're not in a position to make informed comments on what
> >> Wikimedia is doing.
> >>
> >> --Michael Snow
> >
> > I really don't see what Wikimedia has done on other occassions has to
> > do with what they are doing on this occassion.
>
>  From the message to which I was replying, you appeared to be talking
> about fair use law overall, not any particular instance. There have been
> several specific situations mentioned in this discussion. Perhaps next
> time you might be more precise if you're talking about only one, instead
> of making comments that sound like sweeping generalizations.
>
> --Michael Snow

s/is doing/has done/.  OK?

Anthony