Definitely not, in our case. Nonprofit educational purposes are a standard fair use of copyrighted material. Wikipedia has no control over downstream commercial uses. That's why we can't accept any of the Creative Commons NC licenses, and similar reasoning applies here. Beware the distinction between generous republication permission of copyrighted and actual relicensure: republication permission is revocable; relicensure isn't.
So, sadly, a lot of things we'd really like to use have to be quoted in small bits or uploaded with nonfree media use rationales, or else passed up entirely. -Durova On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Elias Friedman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Stephanie Clarkson < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > I have been looking over a number of items having to do with educational > > methods. There are a few items that I think would benefit from > > illustrations of the methodologies, and I've found some examples, > > labelled with 'materials may be reproduced for educational purposes.' > > They are the sort of thing where in the course of a 10 page lesson plan, > > there's one page for photocopying for distribution, where they have > > relinquished some rights (but nothing clear like a CC license). > > > > Does an encylopedia count as an educational purpose (or, I should say, > > for a declaration like that, does Wikipedia count in the eyes of the law > > as educational)? > > > > S. > > > > > I'd say very likely yes. However we have our own rules and licensing. > Except > for the limited exception for fair use images, Wikipedia content has to be > freely re-usable by anyone for anything regardless of whether it's > educational or commercial. > > Elias Friedman A.S., EMT-P ⚕ > אליהו מתתיהו בן צבי > [email protected] > http://elipongo.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- http://durova.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
