Gwern Branwen wrote:
On 0, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com scribbled:
What is wrong with a poorly formatted but perfectly readable list of bishops for a particular diocese?
Probably a copyvio
Are lists of bishops copyrightable? There's nothing creative in compiling a list of publicly known information.
Ironically, they are in some jurisdictions; see [[Database right]]s. Thankfully, the US has not adopted protection for databases - if ever it did, we might have some problems then.
One cannot assume that such a list came from a protected database. If it was generated independently from on paper sources it would not be protected by database rights.
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