Jarekt added a comment.

The type of data we are copying from Wikimedia projects to to Wikidata is not copyrightable. Those are just facts, like coordinates, dates, names, filenames, identifiers (like VIAF numbers, etc.), etc. on Commons we have template for such data: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-ineligible. It does not matter if such facts are embedded in otherwise copyrightable text. For example I can go to copyrighted book, copy date of birth for someone and place it in Wikidata, without violating copyrights of the book author. This situation might change if someone starts importing full sentences of text, like example sentences using some word.


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