[WikiEN-l] Copyrighted material on Wikipedia

Sun Oct 5 18:31:22 UTC 2003

I tried posting this I did does not seem to have gone
through.
Alex756
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From: "Alex R." <alex756 at nyc.rr.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Copyrighted material on Wikipedia


> 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
>