[WikiEN-l] Re: Fair use images on user pages and enforcement

Thu Jan 19 13:25:54 UTC 2006

On 1/19/06, Haukur Þorgeirsson <haukurth at hi.is> wrote:
> > I was very involved in the fair use project until a few months ago
> > when I realised that there was no hope and "fair use" will destroy
> > wikipedia. I am now mostly contributing to commons and writing a few
> > articles. I am still interested (when I get time) in writing tools
> > to make it easier to fork a free version of wikipedia without fair use
> > images.
>
> Every other article I write quotes a copyrighted text (=fair use). You
> might have a hard time yanking that out :)
>
> Regards,
> Haukur

Short quotes of text also tend to be the kind of fair dealing which is
broadly accepted by all countries and is essentially indistinguishable
from "not copyrighted".

Fair use, in general, is a whole different beast.

Anthony