Michael Snow wrote;
It would depend on how Safeway created the list. If Safeway sends employees to WalMart stores to write down every item they can find that Safeway doesn't offer, that's entirely legitimate because there's no copying (in the copyright sense) involved. If Safeway somehow obtains WalMart master internal list of merchandise and takes information from it, then they are copying.
I am 90% sure these lists were not copied, but generated. So it would be more akin to writing down every item as opposed to copying an internal master list. This would would of course have to be confirmed with user:Bogdangiusca who first uploaded the lists.
thanks Martin (User:Bluemoose)
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Martin Richards wrote:
Michael Snow wrote;
It would depend on how Safeway created the list. If Safeway sends employees to WalMart stores to write down every item they can find that Safeway doesn't offer, that's entirely legitimate because there's no copying (in the copyright sense) involved. If Safeway somehow obtains WalMart master internal list of merchandise and takes information from it, then they are copying.
I am 90% sure these lists were not copied, but generated. So it would be more akin to writing down every item as opposed to copying an internal master list. This would would of course have to be confirmed with user:Bogdangiusca who first uploaded the lists.
thanks Martin (User:Bluemoose)
I don't there there would be an electronic "list of Britannica articles" anywhere, unless someone generated it; if a Wikipedian generated it and placed it on Wikipedia, that is clearly a creative work covered by the GFDL. And even more creative work would have gone into subtracting the articles which already exist. Hence I don't think Britannica has anything on us; but if they copied our list and said "here is a list of articles we have that Wikipedia doesn't", and didn't will out the correct paperwork, we could do them for GFDL violation :)
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