In addition to my previous critique about the unsourced claims here, I
also have made a comment on the talk page regarding my own position in
this matter, which I replicate here for completeness:
"""
Current legislations do not support the licensing of individual facts,
only of databases as a whole, and only in some countries. What you are
asking for is Wikidata to lobby for the introduction of new notions of
"copyright" which do not exist today. Yes, you could use these laws to
enforce attribution and share-alike, but companies will also use the
same laws to enforce conditions on using "their" facts. This is not
desirable. Plain data is free from such legal control, and this is the
position of the EFF (see this recent article [1]) and also of many
people in our community. Concepts like the infamous illegal prime [2]
express the fundamental opposition that free culture proponents have
against putting terms and conditions on data items. By suggesting that
laws should be more restrictive, the article is arguing against some of
the basic freedoms we are supporting with our movement. --Markus
Krötzsch 22:43, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
"""
In particular, it should be noted that the Electronic Frontier
Foundation is fully supporting the approach of Wikidata: "raw data
itself is not copyrightable, but there are still good reasons to
explicitly assert its public domain status" [1].
Markus
[1]
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/open-government-data-act-would-uh-ope…
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime
On 16.06.2016 17:45, nicolasmaia(a)tutanota.com wrote:
FYI:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-06-15/Op-ed
Nicolas Maia
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