On 3/17/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/17/06, Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.org wrote:
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geni stated for the record:
Non issue. We leave Afd to have their fun that kill it like to copyvio it is. Takeing on the inclusionists head on will probably result in a dummies watch or something.
-- geni
A simple list cannot be copyrighted, so cannot be a copyright violation. [[Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service]].
I think the claim of "simple list" is somewhat doubtful. Remove the subheadings and shove it into alphbetical order and you have a case.
Even if it contains some creative work; someone else needs to have made the same list before we did for it to be considered a copyvio. Us Wikipedians are allowed to be creative ourselves. What list are we violating?
Mgm