| EgonWillighagen added a comment. |
Hi all, IANAL but have been professionally dealing with copyright for quite some time now (scholar, author, database creator, advisor, etc, etc).
First, automated (bots, quickstatements) added of content that is not public domain (the formal type, e.g. in USA, not the loose common sense of the word) or CCZero itself is not OK. That said, I am not aware of anyone violating that. I understood that was discussed on a private mailing list, but makes this ticket's discussion a bit academic (sadly).
Second, to me, when I signed up for a Wikidata account, the license/waiver (CCZero is an agreement that waives all rights given by any law in any jurisdiction; does someone know if the legality of it has been challenged in court? not that I am aware of, at this moment) was pretty clear to me. Just like with Wikipedia, the account owner takes responsibility for not uploading copyright infringing material. To me, that does not make CCZero unsuitable for Wikidata at all, but does mean that some users seems to violate the Wikidata user agreement.
Third, someone above suggest to change the CCZero license/waiver. I strongly disagree: it would violate my creative right, if not legally (which is probably OK), but at least morally. Like me, I expect that many others have put significant effort in entering CCZero data, and I really prefer others to acknowledge my and others wishes to have "my" data under CCZero.
Fourth, tracking where data comes from is really important. But please consider it's complicated. If something says, "stated in" "English Wikipedia", it does not mean it was automatically entered; that depends from account to account. When I cannot find a better source, I often use "English Wikipedia" as reference source, and will state that in Wikidata (I sometimes forget).
So, for me this issues is not about CCZero for Wikidata, it is about some people doing stuff they were not supposed to do. Have these people been contacted? Has the violating content be identified? What was their reply? Has an attempt been made to remove that content?
Egon
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