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?
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Robert Rohde <rarohde(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Brian
<Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu> wrote:
Who owns the copyright for the selection,
coordination or arrangement of
the
You are citing a proposed bill from 2003-04 that never made it to the
floor for a vote.
To the more general point, I would personally argue that Feist v.
Rural [1] applies to the dumps and the selection / arrangement is
ineligible for copyright. Hence, in my opinion, there is no copyright
for the dump as a whole, though the individual articles in contains
are certainly eligible for copyright.
-Robert Rohde
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications_v._Rural_Telephone_Service
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