Arabic Wikipedia has a fair-use policy, but it is more strict than en.wp. On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Hans A. Rosbach <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 13 March 2011 22:14, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 13 March 2011 18:25, Hans A. Rosbach <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> The English Wikipedia has a fair use policy, I know of no other > > Wikipedia > > > that has one. The statement "We can claim fair use when using images > like > > > that on > > > Wikipedia" is correct for English Wikipedia, but not for the other > > > Wikipedias. > > > > When I said "can" I was talking from a legal perspective. The law is > > the same regardless of what language the content is in. > > > > Ok, I took it to be according to our policy. I'm not a lawyer, so in that > respect I just have to take your word for it. > > Like the Danish, we in Norwegian (bokmål) have no fair use. It has been > several years and my memory of the discussion might be wrong, but when we > adopted our image policy I believe arguments against fair use included that > we could not legally use it. Whether we can and whether it should in that > case be policy are different questions, only the latter do I have views on. > > Hans A Rosbach > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Best Regards, Muhammad Yahia _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
