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Morrowind ingredient lists

(copied from User talk:TheRealLurlock)

I've found two on external sites - here and here - since the data is all compiled from stuff copyrighted by Bethesda (same as the ingredients and alchemy effect lists), could either of these (they're the same) be copied here directly? Alphax 09:38, 18 March 2007 (EDT)

Two sides to this: legal and common courtesy. The legal side is that yes, collections of information can be copyrighted. While the individual bits of info may not be copyrighted (or might be under a separate copyright), the assembly of info is covered by a "collection" copyright. E.g., phone books and maps are covered by collection copyrights even though they're just assemblies of known facts. So, yes it would be a copyright violation to copy the collection. Note that independent creation without copying would be okay -- but you would actually have to do it, not just point out that you could do it. Typically, independent creation results in differences in substantial differences in text, so lack of such substantial differences would be evidence of copying.

The second side is common courtesy. The guy on that other site worked hard to get the info and the present it in attractive way. It's really nicely done. Common courtesy says don't steal his effort.

You can of course ask the guy if the info can be copied here (under CC license, of course), but I wouldn't be surprised if he says no. (The wiki/CC license is pretty open, and not all authors want to give their work away like that.) If you don't want to go to the effort of duplicating the guys work, you may want to just link to his site. We do that with CS Wiki and did that with Oblivion mod wiki (while it was still around). --Wrye 15:03, 23 March 2007 (EDT)