Re: fair use policy in other languages

Tomos at Wikipedia wrote:

> I have heard that German wikipedia does not accept fair use images (and 
> even texts?). But I don't know the reasonings behind it. That would be 
> interesting to know.

My understand of it is that:

- Most German speakers come from Germany
- Hence, most people who would want to re-use the German Wikipedia
   content, would likely be from Germany
- There is no such thing as Fair Use in Germany
- Hence, they wouldn't be able to use Fair Use images, even if the U.S.
   server on which de.wikipedia.org is hosted would be.

So, if I haven't gone wrong anywhere, they disallow Fair Use images in 
order to maximise the reusability of their content.

Timwi