I assume Cunctator (hello!) means he sees extraction of facts /
relationships from CC-SA articles, and claiming those facts are CC-0, hurts
copyleft.

I don't see copyright/left as applying to individual facts or data; so I
don't think this is a legal issue; but the social and practical questions
are relevant. [how do we set expectations? as it becomes easier to
decompose narratives and texts into constellations of facts, what's the
impact on (c) / (ↄ), &c.]


On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 11:27 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]>
wrote:

> The Cunctator, 18/06/2018 17:57:
> > Is there a coherent explanation of what content Wikidata is extracting
> from
> > CC-BY-SA projects?
>
> Not really, because it's a very distributed and long-running process
> (which is very very far from completion). But there are some relevant
> examples explained in some publications.
> https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/412922/1/opensym_wd_vs_wp_2_.pdf
>
> https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/413433/1/Open_Sym_Short_Paper_Wikidata_Multilingual.pdf
> http://oadoi.org/10.1145/2872427.2874809
>
> > Your claims that the abusive destruction of copyleft by the Wikidata
> > project have nothing to do with copyright and nothing to do with Wikidata
> > don't make any sense.
> By "abusive destruction of copyleft" do you mean the practice of
> mirroring Wikipedia articles, or snippets thereof, without really
> complying with the copyleft licenses?
>
> The first large scale example (which went way beyond the usual rogue
> mirrors) was probably Facebook with "community pages" in 2010.
> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2010-April/104232.html>
>
> At the time, the Wikimedia Foundation attempted to get them include a
> visible reference to CC-BY-SA, links from which the history and edit
> buttons would be visible, and so on. Some considered the result
> acceptable, some didn't. But many said there was no way to enforce
> something else.
>
> Free riders are a common and well-studied issue of copyleft projects.
> The countermeasure is generally some kind of copyleft compliance
> syndicate, like
> https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.html
>
> Federico
>
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