Nicolas, Markus, Gerrard, Stas, Egon and Wikidatans,
Thanks for your clarifications from within the Wikidata community about
Creative Commons' licensing and possible other ones.
With CC Wikidata's 358 languages, it seems to be in an important position
over time to help define and come into conversation about these licensing
issues, in collaboration with Creative Commons itself, with ever further
precision and consideration, if only in Wikipedia/Wikidata pages. As these
licensing questions unfold over the decades ahead and possibly
differentially in the many languages' countries' legal systems even (i.e.
CC may unfold differently in different nation states over decades and
longer), I hope too CC World University and School (which was donated to CC
Wikidata last autumn) and which seeks to develop and offer CC law degrees
in all countries' main languages by hiring law faculty, first probably as
graduate student instructors, can help co-develop further some of these CC
licensing considerations, even as the Wikidata community continues to focus
on altruism and sharing, and comes into conversation about this via
Creative Commons' licensing at present.
These licensing issues (and related emergent questions) will probably only
grow in sophistication as Wikidata and information technologies themselves
(in all languages) develop in the long run, and I'm glad you/we Wikidatans
are addressing these issues directly as they unfold. Thank you.
All the best,
Scott
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/
On Jun 18, 2016 7:00 AM, "Markus Kroetzsch"
<markus.kroetzsch(a)tu-dresden.de>
wrote:
On 18.06.2016 08:37, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
I have written my opinion on the licensing of Wikidata data.. [1]
I agree with your position there.
It's nice to have an argument that appeals to our goals of sharing and
altruism. My former argument was more about the undesirable legal
implications that such copyright-law strengthenings would imply -- a
warning of the negative effects -- but it's good to also remember the
positive effects that the current situation brings us.
Markus
[1]
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2016/06/wikidata-has-cc-0-license-this-s…
2016-06-16 17:45 GMT+02:00 <nicolasmaia(a)tutanota.com
<mailto:nicolasmaia@tutanota.com>>:
FYI:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-06-15/Op-ed
Nicolas Maia
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