Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
(And what are we doing using British copyright laws in a Wikipedia run in the US anyway? Surely the BBC won't tell you if it's copyright under *American* law.)
The BBC will tell me whether they assert copyright over the list itself. If they do not assert copyright, then it essentially does not matter. If they do assert copyright, then we should respect that, per our mission, our copyright policy, and not being foolish. The issue is not so tremendously important that we should risk breaking the law to include it. Hell, Top Gear don't even bother putting it on their website! It really is pretty trivial, as facts go.
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.