In a message dated 3/8/2008 11:29:51 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu writes:
If WMF's lawyer is willing to step in and say that we are not infringing their copyright, that's one thing, but in the meantime they explicitly claim that we are and you are not a lawyer. IMHO there are plausible arguments in favor of the CAS position that you are not considering.>>
----------------------------------------------------------- A + B does not equal 4. Your argument above is not compelling. We do not make decisions "under advice of counsel", we make them by community discussion. The community, in this case, is hopefully wise enough to see this sham claim of "copyright over facts" for exactly what it is. We also cite hundreds of details about movie scripts, and hundreds of quotes from the New York Times.
In none of these cases are we violating any copyright, regardless of what any supposedly injured party might think. If they do in fact this it, let them send us a C&D officially, drafted by their lawyer, stating that.
They can then, cite, the exact case law under which they are making such a claim. Otherwise they are just blowing smoke.
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