Chad wrote: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Nikola Smolenski <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Gerard Meijssen wrote: >> >>> That is a bit simplistic. It takes a huge effort to create dumps. The dump >>> >>> of the English language Wikipedia is even notoriously difficult to create. >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow >>> >>> Huge effort is not copyrightable. >>> > I haven't seen anyone trying to lay claim to a copyright > on the dumps. I would venture to say that it's merely a > transformative work, as it doesn't do anything but > collect them in a machine-readable format. The various > dumps are designed to organize the information, not > change them in any way. > While at first glance it might seem as though there was a compilation copyright in the dumps the fact that they are generated by a mechanical process would suggest that the lack the originality that is a fundamental requirement for copyrightability.
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