Am Di., 16. Juni 2020 um 16:00 Uhr schrieb Mateusz Konieczny via legal-talk <legal-talk@openstreetmap.org>:
> See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Database_Rights > > > Whenever possible, the best course is to use only content that is made > > available by the author under an open license. In particular, for EU > > databases, the license should include a license or express waiver of > > the sui generis database right. > > > Though in general approach of Wikidata is to ignore copyright, unlike > OSM or Wikimedia Commons. > > Compare > https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Copyright > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Copyright > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Copyright > > Common comment is "we are copying facts, facts are not copyrightable" > what may be or may be not describing such editing in case of USA legal > framework > indeed, it is not the European legal situation. > > Provided that ODbL and OpenStreetMap would be sufficiently linked, is it > then possible to copy OSM data into wikidata, which is distributed as CC0? > > AFAIK not sufficient, ODBL is a copyleft ("share alike") license, so it > would be necessary to add > also that data is ODBL licensed. > yes, I meant OSM is mentioned as source of the data and it is made clear that the data is published with an ODbL license, this is what "ODbL" was referring to. > > I opened deletion request for one of items at > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions#Q76939332 > and notified the author > thank you for taking action, I guess this may be a good way to raise awareness, although ultimately I would prefer improving / fixing the attribution and keeping the data rather than removing it. Cheers Martin
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