Wikibooks:Fair use policy
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Fair Use of both text and images is a legal grey area where you must use judgement and personal opinion as to if something qualifies as fair-use or not.
What is Fair Use
What is Permitted on Wikibooks
To simplify the process of trying to determine if something qualifies as fair-use here on Wikibooks, only content which meets the following criteria will be allowed to stay on Wikibooks. We are not lawyers here and are not prepared to stay on the leading edge of legal theories and the latest court judgements and case law. The only real alternative is to simply ban fair use content on Wikibooks altogether, which has been done for some Wikimedia projects due to the complex issues involved.
Fair Use Text
Permitted Fair Use on Wikibooks for Text:
- Very short excerpts from a much larger work, usually just a few words or a single sentance or two.
Fair Use Images
Permitted Fair Use on Wikibooks for Images: