[WikiEN-l] Copyright question

[The Cunctator]

On 4/3/07, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/3/07, Sam Blacketer <sam.blacketer at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 4/3/07, "The Cunctator" <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > What we have here is a creative selection of listings.
> > >
> > > Which has been compiled by Wikipedians, not by the show.
> >
> > No, it hasn't. The listing has been compiled by 'Top Gear'. The list
> > has been copied down from the screen by a Wikipedian based solely on
> > what was on the screen, adding nothing, changing nothing, removing
> > nothing, just writing a list of what was on the screen. The creative
> > input from the Wikipedian was nil.
>
>
> Did the complete list ever appear on Top Gear?
>
>
> Suppose there was a television music show with a sing-along song,
> > where the words were displayed on 'idiot boards' for the studio
> > audience. A wikipedian watches the show and copies down the lyrics off
> > the boards displayed in the studio and clearly visible on the
> > television. That would still be an infringement of the copyright of
> > the lyricist of the song. This is the same thing, only with a list of
> > cars.
>
>
> And lyrics and names of cars are completely different. If someone took the
> last word uttered on each episode of Seinfeld and called the resultant
> listing lyrics and composed a song to those lyrics that wouldn't be
> copyright infringement either.
>
> Again, you're not a copyright lawyer, so stop making Statements of Fact As
> If You Are The Infallible Judge.
>

p.s. Sorry for the tone.  I didn't mean to be so strident.