On 4/4/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
OK, the OTRS ticket is 2007031910019141.
That ticket references the UK music charts, not this BBC Top Gear thing.
As far as the music charts go, their copyright status in the US would be questionable. If the charts are actually simply a sales analysis - as they claim to be - such facts would not be copyrightable, since nothing creative goes into producing them. As such, I find the automatic deletion of them based on a questionable copyright claim troubling.
I don't think their UK copyright status enters into it, as far as the legality of hosting it on Wikipedia. As I understand it, UK copyright law allows the copyrighting of uncreative works.
-Matt