Forum:About Fair use

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I got a question about fair use. It is allowed in non-English wikias? I know some wikipedias don’t use it for legal matters. What is the position of wikia? --Marlon 00:09, 2 July 2009 (UTC)


 * It's more or less heavily use on fr.guildwars. 90% of the images there are screenshots from the game. But since there isn't any other way to document that game... — TulipVorlax 00:27, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
 * German wikis are entitled to use unfree images by the right to cite. I guess this would apply to French wikis as well. Ahem, if it wasn't for Canada.--AB 17:34, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Canada is supposed to have a thing almost the same as fair use as it's described on the wikipedia article about fair use (called Fair dealing).
 * But i dont consider any french wikis on Wikia as been obligeated to follow laws of France nor Canada since the hosting might not be really in thoses countries.
 * I'm dreamming of an Internet not bound to any countries laws, as if Internet was a separate world with it's own laws. That would simplify somes things. And the laws of Internet could be made so anyone from any country can contribute to wikis in any language they wishes...
 * Now, is there a lawyer or something around here that could help understand what we can do and what we can't do, considering both the language of the wiki on Wikia and our residing country ? — TulipVorlax 20:59, 3 July 2009 (UTC)