[WikiEN-l] Jimbo/Seigenthaler CNN interview transcript

Tue Dec 6 20:30:16 UTC 2005

Yes, but this BOLD argument has largely been dismissed
in favor of the CAUTIOUS argument which says 'we just
dont want to find out what "a court" (i.e. a U.S.
court) might say on the fair use issue, so we are
going to exercise extreme cautious in our application
of fair use, in any property-infringement claims.

Wikipedia's philosophy is like Debian's, which for
sake of purity will avoid loading Java, Flash player,
etc, and thereby will lose substantial end-user
'marketshare' to slick sub-distros like Ubuntu and
Mepis. Simply tagging fair use (should we going to
prune 'fair use' of text too?) would suffice, if such
would be integrated with the means to strip the
'non-free' matter from the 'free' version. The
non-free could even be a patch to the 'free' distro.

Stevertigo

--- Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com> wrote:

> > fair use says nothing about public purpose. Now a
> few excerpts would
> > be ok, but not the whole
> > thing. You can hear about it from CNN.
> 
> Actually, a number of copyright law commentators
have suggested that
> "public purpose" may be a legitimate restriction on
exclusive rights,
> as a form of "fair use".  The claim was raised
inartfully in RTC v.
> Henson, but I don't believe the court ever ruled on
the merits of that
> claim (mainly because Henson is a freaking idiot).

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