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Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Please delete this list immediately. Opinions of our legal team are divided about the issue, and I feel that in a case like this, conservatism and caution are called for.
A single source list like this may very well be in a legal gray area. But would not a list that was derived from multiple sources minus articles we already happened to have be OK? Certainly this would be legal given the fact that in the U.S. an alphabetical list of names with addresses by it has *no* copyright protection.
I don't feel that out-right deleting is in order. A merger with the other lists first *is*.
I agree. AFAICT, the lists had already been trimmed for things that we already had articles. I support temporary undeletion and merging of these lists. All Encyclopedia lists if neccessary, even 1911EB (though it should be noted next to these that a 1911EB article exists, since these are PD already).
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