[WikiEN-l] What en:wp would look like printed out

[Gwern Branwen]

On  0, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> scribbled:
> > > What is wrong with a poorly formatted but
> > > perfectly readable list of bishops for a particular diocese?
> >
> > Probably a copyvio
>
> Are lists of bishops copyrightable? There's nothing creative in
> compiling a list of publicly known information.

Ironically, they are in some jurisdictions; see [[Database right]]s. Thankfully, the US has not adopted protection for databases - if ever it did, we might have some problems then.

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gwern
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