Re: There's a simple solution - fork Wikipedia
There are 1000s of pages like this on WP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buprestis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidia
What, other than the image is copyrightable? Seems to be exactly the same as the US phonebook case.
How about this of which there are 100,000s similar all ripped from zoology databases:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnet_Companion_Moth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccotremataceae
Or pages like this of which there are again 100,000s similar all of which are straight rips from geographic databases:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maghraoua,_Morocco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenberg,_Saxony
Then there are 100,000s of pages like this ripped from sporting almacks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yordanis_Borrero
what is copyrightable here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Heyward_Academy
The fact is that out of its 5 million pages the number of pages that are actually susceptible to copyright are few and far between. Then there is all the stuff that is derived from the 1911 EB and the catholic encyclopedia and other public domain sources. What would make those page copyrightable now?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
