[Wikipedia-l] Copyright question

[Erik Moeller]

> 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?

Facts cannot be copyrighted, only particular presentations can. Even if  
someone claims copyright on a very basic factual list, you can safely  
ignore it.

Regards,

Erik