Regarding fair use
Iamunknown <[email protected]>
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I really don't want fair use to go totally away, but I agree that it should be significantly limited. The clause, "Because of our commitment to free content, this non-free media should not be used when it is reasonably possible to replace with free media that would serve the same educational purpose," in Kat Walsh's statement comes to mind. While I have expreseed concern on-wiki and on-mailing list before about unlicensed images, many which, if licensed properly, would remained unlicensed and used under fair use, I think that we should not outright ban unlicensed content used under fair use. In particular, we should allow very very limited use of non-free media when it would be practically impossible to use free media -- the media used in the European History wikibook comes to mind -- and for small textual quotations. What are everyone else's feelings? -Iamunknown