Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:23:01 -0700, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
A not copyrighted response would simplify things, but not so for the contrary view.
If they assert copyright, then we should simply exclude the list. It's not like it matters, we can have some examples, preferably in prose. This does not prevent us discussing the topic of the Cool Wall, and it does not materially degrade the article, in that it's not actually necessary to have the entire list in order to understand the concept.
Guy (JzG)
Here is where I see the crux of the issue in this thread: you are not interested in keeping the information in question. You do not value it. You are willing to eliminate it at request (which is all that their reply could possibly be seen as).
Wikipedia/Wikimedia was established (and I hope continues to exist) to make information freely available. Caving in to unreasonable claims of copyright is not the way to do that.
Note that I'm not saying that their claim would be unreasonable--I am not an expert in copyright law. But your position is that their mere request should result in our removing the information, when the question of whether this is a copyright violation is still very much in question.
-Rich