On 1/19/06, Haukur Þorgeirsson <haukurth(a)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