On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:53:18 -0600, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Wikipedia allows fair use of copyrighted material, and furthermore it follows American copyright law rather than British so even if the BBC claims "the list is copyright us, don't touch!" and a British lawyer says "they're right, you know" that doesn't necessarily mean we can't include the list. It may be uncopyrighted in the US, and at the very least I expect it's easy fair use.
You suspect. But I suspect that reproducing in its entirety a list which constitutes original creative work is not an "easy" fair use. If you look lower down you'll see that Ray Saintonge agrees. So: probably not "easy".
Guy (JzG)