[WikiEN-l] Copyright question

[Sam Korn]

On 4/2/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> And I agree with David, this really looks like you're just searching for
> any excuse you can get to get rid of that list. Copyvio and OR are
> almost diametrically opposed to each other as reasons to delete
> something; copyvio means it's a direct copy of something creative that
> someone else came up with and OR means it's something creative that was
> come up with ''de novo''. They can't both be true. Accusing this stuff
> of being both in the same message seems like you're just throwing
> everything against the wall to see what sticks.

I read Guy's argument to be "if collating the information is creative,
it's original research; if it's not, it's a copyright infringement;
either way, delete".

Which is reasonable.

The counter-argument is for how it can be non-creative and exempt from
copyright.  I don't have that argument.

-- 
Sam