Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:34:03 -0600, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
But if this list was compiled by Wikipedia editors (as JzG claimed when arguing that it's OR) then the _editors_ own the compilation copyright and are perfectly within their rights to release it under the GFDL.
No. The list exists in the form of a series of judgments made by the show's presenters, to categorise various cars in various places. The Cool Wall is the Top Gear "car coolness" chart, just as the 100 greatest people list is the author's own view and can't be reproduced without violating his copyright.
So I take it you'll be putting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/79th_Academy_Awards_nominees_and_winners up for deletion, then? That list also records a copyrighted series of judgments. Doesn't matter if it's more widely known, it's still copyrighted under this interpretation.
You're taking an extreme fundamentalist position here that IMO can't possibly work if Wikipedia is to have meaningful coverage of anything post-1920s.