Brian wrote:
Who owns the copyright for the selection, coordination
or arrangement of the
dumps?
Given that no one selects, coordinates or arranges the dumps, no one
owns the copyright on them.
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
> 2009/1/8 Brian <Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu>du>:
>> I was under the impression that the WMF does hold a copyright over the
>> entirety of a particular Wikipedia as they offer that collection for
>> download. And re-users often use these dumps as seeds for their
"illegal"
>> re-use.
> IANAL, but I think you need to have had a creative input in the work
> to hold a copyright to it, what creative input has WMF had is
> combining all the articles into one dump?