On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Jan Kučera <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > did anyone think of possible copyright restrictions on the use of > external data within wikidata? I am not sure common public sources of > data are usable right away... seems like copyright works the same with > data as with any other "work"... Sure, many organizations throw data > into public domain, but it definitely is not an industry standard yet. > > Kozuch
Right. And I think that's ok. It'll take time. Wikidata needs that time to grow a community to maintain the data in it. It's perfectly ok for Wikidata to not have a billion entries in the first month ;-) To give you an impression of some organisations that want to work together with us already and the licenses of their data: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Data_collaborators Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
