[WikiEN-l] Re: Copyright and Britannica Article List

Sun Jun 26 07:50:10 UTC 2005

Thank You. BTW, It is time for Dear old Henry to rest in the U.N. up in
the great beyond. I sense he only has a few more hours.

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  From: Alphax
  To: "English Wikipedia"
  Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Copyright and Britannica Article List
  Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 17:12:35 +0930

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  > Martin Richards wrote:
  > > Michael Snow wrote;
  > >>
  > >> It would depend on how Safeway created the list. If Safeway
  > >> sends employees to WalMart stores to write down every item they
  > >> can find
  > >> that Safeway doesn't offer, that's entirely legitimate because
  > >> there's no copying (in the copyright sense) involved. If Safeway
  > >> somehow obtains WalMart master internal list of merchandise and
  > >> takes information from it, then they are copying.
  > >
  > > I am 90% sure these lists were not copied, but generated. So it
  would
  > > be more akin to writing down every item as opposed to copying an
  > > internal master list. This would would of course have to be
  confirmed
  > > with user:Bogdangiusca who first uploaded the lists.
  > >
  > > thanks Martin (User:Bluemoose)
  > >
  >
  > I don't there there would be an electronic "list of Britannica
  articles"
  > anywhere, unless someone generated it; if a Wikipedian generated it
  and
  > placed it on Wikipedia, that is clearly a creative work covered by
  the
  > GFDL. And even more creative work would have gone into subtracting
  the
  > articles which already exist. Hence I don't think Britannica has
  > anything on us; but if they copied our list and said "here is a
  list of
  > articles we have that Wikipedia doesn't", and didn't will out the
  > correct paperwork, we could do them for GFDL violation :)
  >
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