Re: fair use policy in other languages

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Hi Tomos,

Le Monday 01 March 2004 18:43, Tomos at Wikipedia a =E9crit :
> At Japanese wikipedia, there has been a discussion regarding fair use
> (equivalent of that in Japanese legal context). It involves both legal and
> moral aspects, and there has not yet been any concensus reached. This is
> just a call for information.
>
> I have been following discussions on some lists (wikipedia-l recently,
> wikilegal-l before), on meta wikimedia's related pages. I got an impressi=
on
> that it is mostly about English wikipedia, and I am wondering if wikipedi=
as
> in other languages reached some concensus on this issue, or at least had
> some discussion.
>
> 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.
>
> Do other wikipedia have policies on this? If you could point us some
> archived discussions and policy pages (in any language), that could help
> japanese wikipedians making better decisions.

There were some talks about images under fair in the French Wikipedia, but =
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agreement. There is the same debate there as for the English WP. Some peopl=
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say that fair use images should not be used, others say it is OK.

I think we will try to have a list of images under fair use before making a=
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decision to delete them or not.

> Thanks for your help.
>
> Tomos

Regards,
Yann

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