On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Nikola Smolenski
<smolensk(a)eunet.yu> wrote:
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> That is a bit simplistic. It takes a huge effort to create dumps. The dump
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> of the English language Wikipedia is even notoriously difficult to create.
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>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow
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> Huge effort is not copyrightable.
>
I haven't seen anyone trying to lay claim to a copyright
on the dumps. I would venture to say that it's merely a
transformative work, as it doesn't do anything but
collect them in a machine-readable format. The various
dumps are designed to organize the information, not
change them in any way.
While at first glance it might seem as though there was a compilation
copyright in the dumps the fact that they are generated by a mechanical
process would suggest that the lack the originality that is a
fundamental requirement for copyrightability.
Ec