Re: [WikiEN-l] Evil Copyvio Lists

Whenever I try to deal with unusual copyright questions myself, I seem to get variously ignored, harassed, challenged with nonsense legal theories, and ad hominem'ed to death. So, I have decided that I am just not going to do it any more. The whole experience is simply way too unpleasant for the limited amount of good I am able to accomplish. Hence someone else is going to have to do it. I have created a list of evil lists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dragons_flight/Evil_looking_lists These ~35 lists appear to be creative works copied from the likes of VH1, Rolling Stone, and Time Magazine. Under US case law a list whose membership is determined by editorial opinion (rather than facts, statisics or polling) is subject to copyright protection, and simply copying such a list into Wikipedia will generally constitute a copyright infringment. Most of the lists I have highlighted are of the "Best of" variety, and appear to consist solely of the editor's judgment about who the best are. (I have tried to exclude lists which were based on votes or polling, as such are not subject to copyright protection, but it is possible that some lists based on polling slipped through without my noticing.) Such lists should be deleted or abbreviated to a length and purpose consistent with fair use. As per my initial comments, I don't intend to pursue this matter further. I'm hoping that my list of evil will be looking quite red some time in the future, but I am not optimistic that it will happen. -DF __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l