[WikiEN-l] Copyright question

[Guy Chapman aka JzG]

On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 13:13:10 -0400, Phil Sandifer
<Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:

>The issue becomes how it's being reported, then. Is the list of cars  
>being compiled in relation to cars, or in relation to the list- 
>makers? If it's the latter, it's much more like FA cup results.

The article is on the Top Gear Cool Wall.  It lists the cars which Top
Gear put on the Top Gear Cool Wall, grouped by the section of the wall
in which the Top Gear presenters and audience decided to place them.
It is broadcast as part of Top Gear, a copyright BBC programme.  There
is no objective standard by which the list could be independently
derived, the way it is derived is an intrinsic part of the Top Gear
show.  Specifically, one of the criteria is "would Kristin Scott
Thomas be seen driving this?"  And this is not based on asking her, as
was made abundantly clear when she appeared on the show and trashed a
number of the cars which Clarkson had rated as cool using the Scott
Thomas test.

Put that way it looks a bit less ambiguous than even I had thought...

Guy (JzG)
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