On 9/9/05, Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Daniel Mayer wrote:
Bullocks. This is legal paranoia.
I'm sorry, but acting carefully on advice from actual lawyers is not legal paranoia.
A legal team who was split on the issue. I suggested a very simple way to avoid much of the potential issues; combine the lists. Thus my 'bullocks' statement in regards to deletion instead of merger. Deletion followed by nothing (what was done) is legal paranoia, while merger is a prudent compromise.
Simply combining the lists doesn't solve the problem, as it could be deemed to be a derivative work, as others have pointed out.
Beyond that, of course I agree with the current concept of creating a generally researched list from many sources of topics which we don't have but should.
My point all along (IIRC, the first comment on the Encarta list talk page was from me raising the merger issue).
But there is a difference between having the list available to a restricted list of folks, or putting on meta: or in the en:Wikipedia: namespace which is effectively "published."
For example, as part of my research, I have several "article lists" from Encarta, Britannica and some other CD-ROM encyclopedias, but I've hesitated to make them public or contribute them to WP, for exactly this reason. Talking to a few lawyer folks on my campus has effectively convinced me I would not have a strong case for fair use/fair dealing. I'm willing to (and would like to be) proved wrong.
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)