[Wikipedia-l] Re: no need to remove the article nor the chapter

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 12:48:51 -0800, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Anybody can "claim" anything.  That does not make it so.  The
> information is not copyright.  Only the way of expressing it is
> copyright.  Thus if someone uses all the information from a copyright
> source, but tells it in his own way that work may be derived from the
> original but it is not legally a derivative work.  Rewriting the
> material would be more appropriate.

You misunderstand copyright, it is not longer limited strictly limited
to the specific expression of an idea. If copyright were still
strictly limited to the specific expression than translations would be
nonviolating (or at worse, a grey area) rather than the strict
violation that the law considers them to be today.