No problem to use any works not in copyright any more,including pre-1923 Columbia and 1911 EB. Also no problem to notice how other encyclopedias commonly do things and create redirects for those alternatives to the way we do them. Their trademark doesn't let them keep those earlier works out of the public domain.

-----Original Message----- From: "Poor, Edmund W" To: "Geoff Burling" llywrch@agora.rdrop.com, "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 06:18:54 -0800 Subject: RE: [WikiEN-l] Re: Columbia and Copyright

We can bypass Columbia's (possible) "stolen Bible names" claim by finding a public-domain list of proper names in an old Bible concordance.

Surely anything printed before 1900 or so has passed into the public domain, and those old guys often did prodigious works of scholarship without computers in those days...

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