[Wikipedia-l] Is this Copyrightable?

[Optim]

Recently I had the idea to create a "factpaedia":
An encyclopaedia of facts.

According to my idea, the factpaedia could serve
as a source for translations, perhaps
semi-automatic, between all wikipedias. It should
work with XML.

An XML factpaedia file could be like this:

<FACTPAEDIA>
<ARTICLE>
<BIOGRAPHY>
<TITLE>Mr. NoOne</TITLE>
<SUMMARY>bla-bla-bla</SUMMARY>
<PERSON-TITLE>Mr.</PERSON-TITLE>
<NAME>NoOne</NAME>
<BIRTH>
<YEAR>8436</YEAR>
<MONTH>34</MONTH>
<DAY>3783</DAY>
<WEEKDAY>Saturday</WEEKDAY>
<PLACE>Lemuria</PLACE>
</BIRTH>
<CREDENTIALS>
<EDUCATION>
<UNDERGRAD>B.Sc.</UNDERGRAD>
<GRAD>M.Sc.</GRAD>
</EDUCATION>
<OTHER>
<MA>S.'.I.'.</MA>
</OTHER>
</CREDENTIALS>
<PROFESSION>Writer</PROFESSION>
<WORKS>
<BOOK>Book 1</BOOK>
<BOOK>Book 2</BOOK>
<BOOK>Book 3</BOOK>
<ESSAY>Essay 1</ESSAY>
</WORKS>
...
</BIOGRAPHY>
</ARTICLE>
</FACTPAEDIA>

Is this file copyrightable?

thnx,

--Optim

--- "Alex T." <alex756 at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> This brings up an interesting point regarding
> copyright. If the content is
> so generic as just to be knowledge then it is
> not really copyrightable as
> it would fall in the public domain.
> 
> This would also mean that the copyright claim
> is so weak that very liberal
> fair use could be made of Wikipedia.
> 
> So you don't even have to worry  about the GFDL
> and its adaption to
> the Wiki process as broad fair use and a large
> dose of public domain
> knowledge means it is very hard to infringe on
> Wikipedia to begin with.
> 
> Perhaps once could even go so far as to suggest
> that the perfect NPOV
> article
> cannot have a copyright as it is so objective
> that there is no personal
> expressiveness in it, it is a conglomeration
> only of knowledge.
> 
> Alex R. (en:user:alex756)
> 
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