[Foundation-l] Incubator Wiki for New Wikimedia Projects (was Vote to create Wikiversity Vote)

[Ray Saintonge]

Anthony DiPierro wrote:

>On 11/15/05, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
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>>>There are companies out there that can do phone books much better than
>>>we ever could.
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>>I'd prefer *any* free phone book to the proprietary ones out there
>>now, so I don't think it'd be hard to do better than the commercial
>>companies.  Yes, the copyright on this information is legally shaky,
>>but EULAs and DRM usually fills those gaps.
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>BTW, I was thinking more of "yellow pages" than "white pages" here. 
>The copyright on "yellow pages" is much stronger legally.
>
The copyright issue might not be such a big problem.  It's the 
mind-numbing tedium of writing a phone book that turns me off.  But then 
if we have enough minds that are numb enough, maybe they should go for 
it. :-)

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