On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 3:32 PM, James Farrar <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/4/30 Andrew Lih <[email protected]>: >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:06 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Gwern is criticizing the article. The Wiki-En operates under US >>> copyright law. In the US you may quote an entire copyrighted work if >>> your purpose is to criticize/critique it. >> >> Unfortunately, this is not an accurate reading of fair use. >> >> Take note of item 3 in the US Copyright site: >> http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html > > Which does not state that an entire copyrighted work may never be quoted.
This is entirely case law, so you won't find anything instructive to that effect. Nearly every public web site or publicly archived mailing list strongly discourages, if not bans, full quoting. Given the Wikimedia community's stringent standards w.r.t. copyright, we should do no less. -Andrew (User:Fuzheado) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
