Recently I had the idea to create a "factpaedia": An encyclopaedia of facts.
According to my idea, the factpaedia could serve as a source for translations, perhaps semi-automatic, between all wikipedias. It should work with XML.
An XML factpaedia file could be like this:
<FACTPAEDIA> <ARTICLE> <BIOGRAPHY> <TITLE>Mr. NoOne</TITLE> <SUMMARY>bla-bla-bla</SUMMARY> <PERSON-TITLE>Mr.</PERSON-TITLE> <NAME>NoOne</NAME> <BIRTH> <YEAR>8436</YEAR> <MONTH>34</MONTH> <DAY>3783</DAY> <WEEKDAY>Saturday</WEEKDAY> <PLACE>Lemuria</PLACE> </BIRTH> <CREDENTIALS> <EDUCATION> <UNDERGRAD>B.Sc.</UNDERGRAD> <GRAD>M.Sc.</GRAD> </EDUCATION> <OTHER> <MA>S.'.I.'.</MA> </OTHER> </CREDENTIALS> <PROFESSION>Writer</PROFESSION> <WORKS> <BOOK>Book 1</BOOK> <BOOK>Book 2</BOOK> <BOOK>Book 3</BOOK> <ESSAY>Essay 1</ESSAY> </WORKS> ... </BIOGRAPHY> </ARTICLE> </FACTPAEDIA>
Is this file copyrightable?
thnx,
--Optim
--- "Alex T." alex756@nyc.rr.com wrote:
This brings up an interesting point regarding copyright. If the content is so generic as just to be knowledge then it is not really copyrightable as it would fall in the public domain.
This would also mean that the copyright claim is so weak that very liberal fair use could be made of Wikipedia.
So you don't even have to worry about the GFDL and its adaption to the Wiki process as broad fair use and a large dose of public domain knowledge means it is very hard to infringe on Wikipedia to begin with.
Perhaps once could even go so far as to suggest that the perfect NPOV article cannot have a copyright as it is so objective that there is no personal expressiveness in it, it is a conglomeration only of knowledge.
Alex R. (en:user:alex756)
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