On 4/9/07, Oldak Quill <oldakquill(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 09/04/07, Anthony <wikilegal(a)inbox.org>
wrote:
If you really want to exclude absolutely all
copyrighted materials
from all articles, lest a lawyer goes through and gives a professional
opinion on whether or not the article is infringing, most articles on
TV series would be decimated. If a list of 20 names of cars is
copyrighted, what about a list of 20 character names? Seems to me
that would be even *more* likely to be copyrightable, as the
individual names themselves are creative.
At that point, maybe it's time to start a new project for fictional works.
Creating a content fork would be a rather dramatic solution that would
harm Wikipedia.
Excluding absolutely all copyrighted materials from all articles would
be a rather dramatic action. As for it harming Wikipedia, I think
that would all depend on how the fork was executed. But it's not
likely to happen, so maybe it's best to just ignore this argument.
Anthony