On 19 Jan 2006, at 10:12, Haukur Þorgeirsson 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 :)
I have no problem with fair use of text in wikipedia.
Fair use of images is just a morass of copyright violation. In theory
it would be ok to allow some, but clearly that cant happen until we
get rid of all the rubbish claimed as "fair use" now, none of which
is.
Justinc