Re: FDL attribution by reference was Re: [Wikipedia-l] FDLused to stifle distribution of articles

> But since WP allows for the work to be distributed free does not article 24
> apply?
> http://www.iuscomp.org/gla/statutes/UrhG.htm#24

I don't think so. They are talking about 'free use of material' here, not
'free material'. What I think this article says, is that copyright protection
does not hold in Germany if the supposedly infringing work is sufficiently
different from the original work. I would think that this would for example
be applicable if one spoofed a work, copied its storyline but not its contents,
etcetera.

Andre Engels