Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:34:03 -0600, Bryan Derksen
<bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
But if this list was compiled by Wikipedia
editors (as JzG claimed when
arguing that it's OR) then the _editors_ own the compilation copyright
and are perfectly within their rights to release it under the GFDL.
No. The list exists in the form of a series of judgments made by the
show's presenters, to categorise various cars in various places. The
Cool Wall is the Top Gear "car coolness" chart, just as the 100
greatest people list is the author's own view and can't be reproduced
without violating his copyright.
So I take it you'll be putting
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/79th_Academy_Awards_nominees_and_winners>
up for deletion, then? That list also records a copyrighted series of
judgments. Doesn't matter if it's more widely known, it's still
copyrighted under this interpretation.
You're taking an extreme fundamentalist position here that IMO can't
possibly work if Wikipedia is to have meaningful coverage of anything
post-1920s.