Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:53:18 -0600, Bryan Derksen wrote:
Wikipedia allows fair use of copyrighted material, and furthermore it follows American copyright law rather than British so even if the BBC claims "the list is copyright us, don't touch!" and a British lawyer says "they're right, you know" that doesn't necessarily mean we can't include the list. It may be uncopyrighted in the US, and at the very least I expect it's easy fair use.
You suspect. But I suspect that reproducing in its entirety a list which constitutes original creative work is not an "easy" fair use. If you look lower down you'll see that Ray Saintonge agrees. So: probably not "easy".
Wow! I agreed with something before I even started reading the thread!
I generally support the concept of fair use, but I prefer not to use it when something else will do. If something is not copyrightable in the first place, why worry about fair use?
Another way to look at this present problem is to consider the fact that every car on the list is a link to a Wikipedia article. We could just as easily go to each of these articles and add [[Category:Cool Wall Car|Uncool]] with the sort element depending on which classification the show used for that car. The result would be the same list on a category page. Would anybody argue that that is a copyvio?
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