Cirdan added a subscriber: ValterVB.Cirdan merged a task: T199608: Feature request.
TASK DETAILhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187611EMAIL PREFERENCEShttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/To: Cyberpower678, CirdanCc: ValterVB, Liuxinyu970226, Cirdan, Cyberpower678
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In T193728#4221843, @Micru wrote:
Wikipedias rephrase the content of works under copyright and rebrand that content as CC-BY-SA, which label do you put to that practice?
That is not what Wikipedia is doing. Wikipedia is using information collected by third parties
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In T193728#4213806, @Micru wrote:
since I hold the rights to that text
The concept of "rights" is quite flexible, as shows Wikipedia. The Wikipedias are based on texts that have copyrights but they have been re-paraphrased so that the copyright no longer app
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In T193728#4213766, @Micru wrote:
Aside from the fact that every single contributor would have to be asked to agree to the change of the license
Not necessarily, a broad discussion with a majority agreeing on it can be enough.
I'm sorry, but your understanding
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In T193728#4212948, @Micru wrote:
Not really, the license is one of the non-negotiable aspects of Wikimedia projects.
With enough support, everything is negotiable.
Aside from the fact that every single contributor would have to be asked to agree to the change
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In T193728#4212728, @Denny wrote:
And thus, since we never required to have the interwiki links attributed in the first place - as I just showed - we obviously do not seem to regard them as being copyrightable and covered by the CC-BY-SA license.
That conclusion
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In T193728#4212870, @Micru wrote:
would it be feasible to ask the several Wikipedia(s) communities to add a clause where it is stated that statements can be mined by the Wikidata community (exclusively or not) and re-released as CC0 on the Wikidata platform?
Leaving
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In T193728#4203583, @EgonWillighagen wrote:
In T193728#4189219, @Psychoslave wrote:
Let's recall that whether this transfer is done by automation or crowdsourcing doesn't matter, it's the quantity of transferred data
Of all things I read about copyright law (IANAL
