On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:53:18 -0600, Bryan Derksen
<bryan.derksen(a)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)
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