On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 10:28:29 -0800 Mark Wagner <mark+...@carnildo.com> wrote:
> Not an issue. The CC0 license explicitly calls out database rights as > being released to the greatest extent possible. From the text of the > license (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode) What about cases where: 1) there is database from say UK, protected under database rights 2) imported into Wikidata (AFAIK in compliance with USA laws) 3) described by Wikidata as CC0 1) coordinates are copied from for example Google Maps into Wikipedia (it is accepted and encouraged on Wikipedia as AFAIK it is not against USA law) 2) imported into Wikidata (done on a massive scale, significant part of Wikidata is mass scale copying of facts justified by "facts are not copyrighted") 3) described by Wikidata as CC0 I am quite sure that in both cases Wikidata contains data not usable in EU/UK (and the same time it can be claimed that data is CC0 - at least in USA it is true). Hopefully I am missing something but I am pretty sure that removing database rights from collection of data is not as simple as "republish database in USA and copy it back". If copying coordinate data from Google Maps is not OK than copying Wikidata coordinates (that were copied from Wikipedia, sourced to Google Maps) is also not OK. Note that examples above are not theoretical, especially tainted geotagging is problematic. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
