The specific reason I would claim that the telephone directory case does not apply is that the dumps are in a machine readable format that is intended to be read by one, and only one, machine: MediaWiki. There must be another domain of applicable case law.
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
2009/1/8 Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu:
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20081008/
These subcollections obviously pass the threshold for creativity. A court case on telephone directories, which is simply a two or three column
output,
has very little applicability to the complex formats published by the
WMF.
I also recognize this to be a legal grey area, and my opinion unfounded.
But I believe this would have significant consequences, no?
That's not obvious to me at all. I think anyone putting together a collection of dumps of Wikipedia would do so in essentially the same way.
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