On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 06:09:32 -0700, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales
<jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
Sj wrote:
I think the decision re: media standards, and the
decision re: fair
use images, are closely related.
Only in the sense that they fall under the general heading of "how can
we best create a GNU-free encyclopedia?"
The key difference is that fair use is a perfectly legitimate
copyright doctrine which ought to be expanded considerably.
The situation with patents is quite different.
Fair enough.
If people are
strongly against allowing any encumbered content in
the public view of the projects, perhaps we could have a special
holding area for uploaded content which does not meet high standards
of free-formatting, but could be converted -- providing for a way to
indicate via links? that such content exists in association with a
page -- rather than disallowing it altogether.
I have no objection to something like this. There is no harm that I
can think of in empowering people to use legal means (but not
necessarily _GNU free_ means, if that's impossible) to help others
have free content.
Great. Perhaps we could use the same holding area for images and other
media with "unknown" copyright status, and with possible-copyvio texts.
Though each class of item requires a different kind of effort to convert it
(where possible) to a valid WM entry, all are being quarantined because
the purity of their freedom is in doubt.
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