> If the data is actually copyrightable, then yes. Facts as such are not > copyrightable. But if there was a bot transferring stuff from infoboxes, it > should at least check for any actual text (e.g. long values with spaces), and > not transfer it, because of license reasons.
I agree. Just to clarify what "actual text" should mean: Although a short sentence with several words may occasionally be a copyrightable text (e.g. a poem), it is very rarely so. On Wikipedia infoboxes, due to scope, purpose and style, this can almost be excluded. It is not desirable to exclude brief scope notes or source notes, which occasionally occur in Wikipedia infoboxes, just because they contain several words. I personally would recommend an extraction dryrun and manually check for parameters that have more than perhaps 12-15 words, whether they are creative (= copyrightable) or plain expressions of fact or sources (= not copyrightable). Gregor _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
