Based on Erik and Mike's responses I would say we need to look at some tweaking to the EDP/Fair Use guidelines.
I'd be happy to be able to lift a sentence or three from a WP article, but how we word a generic fair-use claim for doing something like that may be tricky. There have recently, and I suspect going right back to the beginning of the project, cases where people have tried to cut and paste bits from source articles, we can't open the door to that. It may be that we need provision for fair use quoting from free sources like Wikipedia, but absolutely not for news sources where we could be considered one of their competitors. Brian. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Linksvayer Sent: 02 March 2009 20:41 To: Erik Moeller Cc: Wikinews mailing list Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] License change? On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/3/2 <[email protected]>: >> Regarding the Wikipedia license change ... >> >> ... It is my belief that after they make their change, Wikinews will be able >> to cut and paste passages from Wikipedia. >> >> Is my assumption correct or false? > > My understanding is that it's considered legal to mix CC-BY and > CC-BY-SA articles, as long as the resultant combined work is labeled > CC-BY-SA. So if that's the case, you could import WP content under the > new licensing regime, but the Wikinews article would then become > CC-BY-SA. > > Copying CC's Mike Linksvayer in case he wants to weigh in. Erik is right. The only other thing to consider would be fair use (I see "passages" above, which could mean very brief). But this would be no change from the FDL. I see that http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Fair_use is all about images. Mike _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
