Where did the initial list come from? Does anyone have a copy of it?
Publishing this outside of Wikipedia would be significantly harder,
because the list of red/blue links would have to be kept up to date,
but it is a potential solution. Another, which is arguably even more
useful, is to pick a certain subset of the list (say 50 entries) to
work on at any time.
But first we need a copy of the list, preferably the full 100,000 article one.
On 8/28/05, Bogdan Giusca (discutii) <disclist(a)dapyx-soft.com> wrote:
First, some statistics: we currently have a list of
13,000
articles, out of 100,000 articles which Britannica has. The list
began in February 2005 with 28,360 articles.
A solution for this problem would be hosting the list outside
the Wikimedia servers and the US, as in some countries (Sweden,
for example), publishing the list in itself would be fair use and not
be punishable under copyright infrigement because it does not create
any loss of profit to Britannica, since nobody buys an encyclopedia
only for the index.
Sunday, August 28, 2005, 8:06:01 PM, you wrote:
D> Case law has consistently held that an index of a work
D> may be independently subject to copyright. We are
D> certainly not using an insubstantial portion of their
D> index.
D> I've discussed this here and other places before, but
D> I do not believe we have a defensible fair use claim
D> in this case. Since I have always been on the losing
D> side of those arguments, I am just surprised something
D> changed.
D> -DF
> And it seems to me, as we've discussed on
here
> before, that it would easily fall under the "fair
> use" clause. We are using an insubstantial part of
> their encyclopedia; we are using it for our own
> internal purposes (it is in the Wikipedia
> namespace, is it not?); we are non-profit; we are
> not claiming copyright; we are not defrauding them >
D> in any way; we
are not even looking at the content >
D> itself, just bibliographic information.
>
> FF
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