On 4/4/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
OK, the OTRS ticket is 2007031910019141.
That ticket references the UK music charts, not this BBC Top Gear thing.
As far as the music charts go, their copyright status in the US would
be questionable. If the charts are actually simply a sales analysis -
as they claim to be - such facts would not be copyrightable, since
nothing creative goes into producing them. As such, I find the
automatic deletion of them based on a questionable copyright claim
troubling.
I don't think their UK copyright status enters into it, as far as the
legality of hosting it on Wikipedia. As I understand it, UK copyright
law allows the copyrighting of uncreative works.
-Matt