| SimonPoole added a comment. |
IMHO there are multiple, mainly communications related issues, that continue to lead to confusion
- people actually need to read the text of the CC0 licence, you will find by using CC0 that the WMF does not make any representations as to third party data in wikidata (see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode 4.c) and only waives any rights the WMF would have. Yes the "human readable" version of CC0 is (not for the first time) misleading (see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).
- the https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute page is silent on the issue of using third party sources
- the WMF communicates ambiguously about its approach to respecting rights of third parties in the place where it does touch on the subject, and it suggests subterfuge to get around database rights (see https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_donation#Wikidata_and_copyright) (which is AFAIK untested in court so may or may not work). https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Database_Rights is better but unlikely to be seen by contributors. Note: for whatever reason the WMF totally ignores non-EU countries that have a sweat of the brow doctrine (Australia and New Zealand for example) in practice these tend to be far more restrictive than the EU sui generis db rights.
Simon
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