The specific reason I would claim that the telephone directory case does not apply is that the dumps are in a machine readable format that is intended to be read by one, and only one, machine: MediaWiki. There must be another domain of applicable case law.
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com>wrote: > 2009/1/8 Brian <brian.min...@colorado.edu>: > > http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20081008/ > > > > These subcollections obviously pass the threshold for creativity. A court > > case on telephone directories, which is simply a two or three column > output, > > has very little applicability to the complex formats published by the > WMF. > > > > I also recognize this to be a legal grey area, and my opinion unfounded. > > > > But I believe this would have significant consequences, no? > > That's not obvious to me at all. I think anyone putting together a > collection of dumps of Wikipedia would do so in essentially the same > way. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- You have successfully failed! _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
