[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T193728: Solve legal uncertainty of Wikidata

2018-05-17 Thread Aschmidt
Aschmidt added a comment. Am 18.05.18 um 00:05 Uhr schrieb Denny: Copyright has to be about some concrete _expression_. I'm afraid this is not the case. According to German law copyright is all about what we call Schöpfungshöhe, and it seems that other legal systems also subscribe

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T193728: Solve legal uncertainty of Wikidata

2018-05-14 Thread Aschmidt
Aschmidt added a comment. Am 14.05.18 um 22:36 Uhr schrieb Nemo_bis: But law is a matter of quality rather than size. But quantitative indicators can be a proxy for quality. A dataset with just 200 statements has most likely been produced by dozens or hundreds of entities none of which can

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T193728: Solve legal uncertainty of Wikidata

2018-05-14 Thread Aschmidt
Aschmidt added a comment. Am 14.05.18 um 17:23 Uhr schrieb Nemo_bis: But I'd argue that nobody would see such a dataset as problematic, especially because it's so small (few hundreds data points). But law is a matter of quality rather than size.TASK DETAILhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T193728: Solve legal uncertainty of Wikidata

2018-05-14 Thread Aschmidt
Aschmidt added a comment. Am 14.05.18 um 11:37 Uhr schrieb TomT0m: The more I personnaly dig into this questions, the more issues are opened and the less clear it becomes that there is an actual issue, and if there is an actual issue if there is a legal risk. Or even if there is a moral

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T193728: Solve legal uncertainty of Wikidata

2018-05-13 Thread Aschmidt
Aschmidt added a comment. Am 13.05.18 um 13:43 Uhr schrieb Simon_Villeneuve: Do all international laws recognize this ? I don't know. [...] Do all international laws recognize this ? I don't know, but I'm more confident on this point than on the first one. Please don't get me wrong

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T193728: Solve legal uncertainty of Wikidata

2018-05-11 Thread Aschmidt
Aschmidt added a comment. Please note that there is not one copyright law. There are as many copyright laws as there are legal systems Wikipedia and Wikidata content can be retrieved from. Exporting data that was published under CC-by-sa to a database licenced under CC-0 obviously is a problem