2012/8/2 Jan Kučera <[email protected]> > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >
Hi. There is indeed laws that applys to data IF they are compiled, in my understanding - nobody can copyright the geolocalisation of the Eiffel tower alone for example, that would be absurd. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right In my understanding there would be a problem if somebody imports data massively from a protected database. Owners sometimes inserts false data in their datasets to be able to prove that an illegal copy has been made. But the "in beetween" single data and mass import is quite unclear to me :) On the other hand there are licences such as http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Data TomT0m
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