On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Jimmy Wales wrote:
What is the situation in German law? You seem to be
arguing that
there is no such thing as fair use in German law, but that strikes me
as virtually impossible. Can you give the details?
I don't know about German law, but in the Dutch law the equivalence of
fair use only holds for quoting in "an announcement, review, polemic or
scientific treatise" (modulo inaccuracies of translation).
Andre Engels