Fortunately nobody is suggesting deletion :-) However there is a good
learning point for future projects, in that on any start of a project
the question of copyright needs to be taken on, to ensure all possible
tees are crossed and ies dotted so that volunteers can avoid getting
bogged down in post-event copyright debate.
As a counterexample to this case of probable 'accidental' copyright, a
real problem for Wikimedians has been the Wikiloves Monuments
projects. In the UK we had many long and difficult discussions about
how to access regional lists of protected monuments and deal with the
fact that many are copyrighted by institutions that actively protect
their copyright. Again, they are just lists of things, so you can do
great stuff like scrape databases and create free apps with
interactive maps of monuments, however you can't just reuse the lists
without considering whether your actions are against the potentially
enforceable copyright terms.
Fae
On 9 December 2016 at 11:10, Andrew West <andrewcwest(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 9 December 2016 at 10:49, Richard Nevell
<richard.nevell(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
That's interesting. How was the issue handled
with A History of the World in
100 Objects a few years back?
I don't think that the issue was ever mentioned by anyone. In cases
like [[A History of the World in 100 Objects]], [[Our Top Ten
Treasures]], and [[Britain's Secret Treasures]] the lists are notable
and of public interest because they have been featured in TV
programmes, and it is impossible to write an article on the subject
without giving the listed objects. To not list the items would be an
extreme disservice to our readers, and would not be any benefit to the
original compilers of the lists.
Personally, I think that in such cases and for 100 women where no-one
is claiming the list as their intellectual property we should not be
overzealous in protecting imaginary copyright concerns. I hope that
for 100 women common sense will prevail over legalistic arguments.
Andrew
[[User:BabelStone]]
--
faewik(a)gmail.com
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae