[WikiEN-l] Copyrighted material on Wikipedia

Sun Oct 5 16:01:28 UTC 2003

From: "Stevertigo" <utilitymuffinresearch2 at yahoo.com>

> > I say "probably" and "potential"  because there is
> > also the argument that
> > could be used that the edit history pages are an
> > archive that allows for
> > infringement of sorts as fair use in an archive is
> > usually honoured to a
> > high degree and Title 17 USC sec. 108 allows
> > archives to maintain copies of
> > otherwise copyrighted material, and sec. 107 would
> > also operate in such a situation.  
> 
> Got boilerplate? 
> 

Check the photocopy machine in any  public library in the
USA.

Here is one that is used by the U of Mass:
http://www.lib.umassd.edu/SPpages/copy.html   
If need be it can be adapted to be posted on the 
page histories if consensus so decrees.

Alex756