On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Jan Kučera kozuch82@gmail.com wrote:
Hi there,
did anyone think of possible copyright restrictions on the use of external data within wikidata? I am not sure common public sources of data are usable right away... seems like copyright works the same with data as with any other "work"... Sure, many organizations throw data into public domain, but it definitely is not an industry standard yet.
Kozuch
Right. And I think that's ok. It'll take time. Wikidata needs that time to grow a community to maintain the data in it. It's perfectly ok for Wikidata to not have a billion entries in the first month ;-) To give you an impression of some organisations that want to work together with us already and the licenses of their data: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Data_collaborators
Cheers Lydia