[WikiEN-l] Copyright question

[Ray Saintonge]

Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:

>On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 08:03:09 -0400, Anthony wrote:
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>>I'd say there's probably a large degree of philosophical opposition to
>>the idea of copyright over a collection of 4 groups of 20 or so names
>>of cars - not as much over the idea of copyright itself.
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>You think.  I think it's reasonable to assert that a list which is
>compiled according to novel criteria is itself subject to copyright. I
>have no problem with examples from each category, the entire list I
>find problematic.
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As I suggested before, if it's possible to devise a category that would 
produce the same results as the list, we should be safe.  This does not 
mean that we have to create the category; it should be enough that we can.

>>If you really want to exclude absolutely all copyrighted materials
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>>from all articles, lest a lawyer goes through and gives a professional
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>>opinion on whether or not the article is infringing, most articles on
>>TV series would be decimated.  
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights suggests that we
>already have such a policy.
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I see nothing in there about lists of the kind we are discussing.

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