Re: Nupedia Open Content License

2000-10-30 Thread Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M.
r by a license since fair use already grants "rights" to the public. Rod - Original Message - From: "John Cowan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "David Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Jimmy Wales" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October

Re: Nupedia Open Content License

2000-10-30 Thread John Cowan
"Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M." wrote: A point of clarification on fair use. "Fair use" is based on copyright. Quite so. As you know (or should have known :-) ), I hold that an open-source license can only grant away the rights that the copyright owner gets from the applicable copyright law,

Re: Nupedia Open Content License

2000-10-30 Thread Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M.
, LL.M." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "David Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Jimmy Wales" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 12:37 PM Subject: Re: Nupedia Open Content License "Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M." wrote: A point of clarification on fair

Nupedia Open Content License

2000-10-28 Thread Jimmy Wales
Nupedia Open Content Encyclopedia aims to be a general purpose encyclopedia, a true multi-national effort to generate a high quality, unbiased, and *free* Encyclopedia. I would like to invite people to read and critique the Nupedia Open Content License, which you may read at: http

Re: Nupedia Open Content License

2000-10-28 Thread David Johnson
On Saturday 28 October 2000 01:43 pm, Jimmy Wales wrote: The only restriction on use and reuse that we seek, and I hope that this is consistent with Open Source ideals, is that when people use the content on the web, they are required to provide a hypertext link back to the original project.