[WikiEN-l] Re: Copyright and Britannica Article List
Henry Kissinger
hkissinger at diplomats.com
Sun Jun 26 07:50:10 UTC 2005
Thank You. BTW, It is time for Dear old Henry to rest in the U.N. up in
the great beyond. I sense he only has a few more hours.
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From: Alphax
To: "English Wikipedia"
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Copyright and Britannica Article List
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 17:12:35 +0930
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> Martin Richards wrote:
> > Michael Snow wrote;
> >>
> >> It would depend on how Safeway created the list. If Safeway
> >> sends employees to WalMart stores to write down every item they
> >> can find
> >> that Safeway doesn't offer, that's entirely legitimate because
> >> there's no copying (in the copyright sense) involved. If Safeway
> >> somehow obtains WalMart master internal list of merchandise and
> >> takes information from it, then they are copying.
> >
> > I am 90% sure these lists were not copied, but generated. So it
would
> > be more akin to writing down every item as opposed to copying an
> > internal master list. This would would of course have to be
confirmed
> > with user:Bogdangiusca who first uploaded the lists.
> >
> > thanks Martin (User:Bluemoose)
> >
>
> I don't there there would be an electronic "list of Britannica
articles"
> anywhere, unless someone generated it; if a Wikipedian generated it
and
> placed it on Wikipedia, that is clearly a creative work covered by
the
> GFDL. And even more creative work would have gone into subtracting
the
> articles which already exist. Hence I don't think Britannica has
> anything on us; but if they copied our list and said "here is a
list of
> articles we have that Wikipedia doesn't", and didn't will out the
> correct paperwork, we could do them for GFDL violation :)
>
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