Doing six rounds on copyright, I keep running into the concepts of fair use and fair dealing.

The United States (and Israel) have fair use, the rest of the world has fair dealing. The two concepts are legally distinct, but for practical purposes tend to be considered more-or-less equivalent, with a caveat that fair dealing may allow for ’slightly ( Read more... )

When the Transformers Wiki was deciding to relicense its content under the Creative Commons, we spent a lot of time discussing it. I mean-an insane amount of time. The GFDL’s relicensing option offered a single up-or-down choice; stay with GFDL or switch to Creative Commons. Why bother?

Well, because the community is concerned about potential ( Read more... )