[Wikipedia-l] Proposed freeness test

Sat Feb 21 17:47:48 UTC 2004

"Tomasz Wegrzanowski" <taw at users.sf.net> schrieb:

> The point of the Free content is to make available something that is as
> legal as if it was created by the receiver. It's impossible to be more
> legal than that. The patent, trademark, libel, censorship and other laws
> may make it impossible to use Free content in some situations, but equivalent
> content created by user would be equally affected.
> 
> Example 1:
>     You can't take a logo from a GFDL photo of Coca Cola headquarters and
>     put it on soft drinks you're producing, but you couldn't if you made
>     the photo yourself. Therefore it still qualifies as Free.
> 
> Example 2:
>     You can't take "fair use" Britney Spears picture and put it into a book
>     about Britney Spears. But if you made the photo yourself, you could.
>     Thus, not Free.

But if you created the work that used the "fair use" Britney Spears you still
could not.

Andre Engels