On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 11:20 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com > wrote:
> Maybe because these are seen as facts and not copyrightable? > Ignoring the issue regarding the provenance of geographic coordinates, for other types of data (like names), it is the position of the Wikimedia Foundation that facts are not copyrightable and therefore these can be inputted into Wikidata which has a CC0 license. As for the issue of the sui generis EU database rights, it is the position of the Wikimedia Foundation that this only applies to databases created by EU citizens/corporations/legal bodies and does not apply to databases created outside the EU. So when importing data from databases originating from the EU, permission needs to be obtained. See this page for more information: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Database_Rights
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