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(a)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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