Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:44:16 -0600, Bryan Derksen
wrote:
That's an uncivil and overly categorical way
of saying your opinion differs.
You say. Me, I feel that this has been a complete waste of
everybody's time. People who know copyright have generally erred on
the side of excluding the list *in its entirety* as being covered by
compilation copyright, just like the AFI 100 lists which have recently
been removed following almost identical discussions, and the balance
is philosophical argument about whether we believe it *should* be
copyrightable.
Saying that those who know copyright agree with excluding the list is
tantamount to saying they know copyright because they agree with you.
There have been several participants "who know copyright" that have the
opposite view.
The ironic thing is that if the show considered it
significant and put
it on their website, the copyright violation would e unambiguous, so
the only reason the argument exists at all is because the show
considers it too trivial to post on their site.
I still haven't received any response to my previous question. If a
category tag were placed in the article for each and every car in the
list, and only those cars, would the resulting category page also be a
copyright infringement just because it contained the same information?
Ec