[Foundation-l] Board meeting in Rotterdam later this week

Sun Jan 14 12:06:39 UTC 2007

> David Strauss wrote:
> You're arguing from the ridiculous premise that Wikipedia must be legal
> in every country. Even the topics of some articles aren't legal in some
> countries.

No, I'm not. I'm aware that this is impossible. But when you say that anyone should be able to reuse a whole Wikipedia article as is, you are making a ridiculous premise, because the very fact that Wikipedia can't be legal in every countru makes this impossible. Unless you intended "a US commercial organization can at least take whole Wikipedia pages and re-use them"

Now please, consider the following two as being the same image (they are not, but for the sake of exemplification they are). 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Microsoft_Office_Word_2007.png

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immagine:MS_Office_Word.JPG

The image on en.wiki 
qualifies as fair use

The image on it.wiki is tagged as copyrighted and used with permission (based on what's written here http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/permissions/default.mspx#ELC)

The image on it.wiki should be removed right?

Roberto (Snowdog)

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