[Wikipedia-l] Copyright question

[Richard Grevers]

What is the situation when you want to include information which is 
essentially in the public domain (e.g. a historical list of the Governors- 
General of NZ) but where all the convenient sources have their own 
copyright notices? Are they in effect copyrighting the information (which I 
would consider to be in the public domain) or just their presentation of 
it?

Happy New Year!

-- 
Richard Grevers