Jun 16, 2020, 13:13 by dieterdre...@gmail.com: > I have noticed that people have been importing OSM data into wikidata. > It appears to be against advise of Wikimedia Foundation advise. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Database_Rights > Whenever possible, the best course is to use only content that is made > available by the author under an open license. In particular, for EU > databases, the license should include a license or express waiver of > the sui generis database right. In the absence of a license, copying > all or a substantial part of a protected database should be avoided. > Extraction and use of data should be kept to a minimum and limited to > unprotected material, such as uncopyrightable facts and short phrases, > rather than extensive text. For EU databases, bots or other automated > ways of extracting data should also be avoided because of the > Directive’s prohibition on “repeated and systematic extraction” of > even insubstantial amounts of data. Though in general approach of Wikidata is to ignore copyright, unlike OSM or Wikimedia Commons. Compare https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Copyright https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Copyright https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Copyright Common comment is "we are copying facts, facts are not copyrightable" what may be or may be not describing such editing in case of USA legal framework > Here are some examples: > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76939332 > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76951022 > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76972551 > > This is a link that someone helpful has provided in the user talk page of the > wikidata user: > https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0Aselect%20%3Fitem%20%3Fcoordinates%20where%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP625%2Fprov%3AwasDerivedFrom%2Fpr%3AP248%20wd%3AQ1224853%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoordinates.%0A%7D > > I believe the attribution is not sufficient (following the "described at URL" > link there is OSM and mapbox attribution)? > > Provided that ODbL and OpenStreetMap would be sufficiently linked, is it then > possible to copy OSM data into wikidata, which is distributed as CC0? > AFAIK not sufficient, ODBL is a copyleft ("share alike") license, so it would be necessary to add also that data is ODBL licensed. I opened deletion request for one of items at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions#Q76939332 and notified the author
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