On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:08:44 -0600, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
So I take it you'll be putting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/79th_Academy_Awards_nominees_and_winners up for deletion, then? That list also records a copyrighted series of judgments. Doesn't matter if it's more widely known, it's still copyrighted under this interpretation.
Has anyone asked the Academy if they assert copyright over the list?
You're taking an extreme fundamentalist position here that IMO can't possibly work if Wikipedia is to have meaningful coverage of anything post-1920s.
Oh thank you so much. And there was I thinking that reproducing chunks of stuff directly out of primary sources was forbidden by law, and I was just trying to stop us getting sued. Now I realise that I am just trying to prevent us covering anything at all that happened in the last seventy-odd years. Excuse me while I go and nominate Wikipedia for deletion.
Oh, wait, I didn't actually nominate the article for deletion, did I?
Once upon a time there was a presumption that the editor seeking to include text was responsible for justifying it. Seems that's changed, then.
Guy (JzG)