Hello everybody,
There is a phabricator ticket on Solve legal uncertainty of Wikidata https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193728 that you might be interested to look at and participate in.
As Denny suggested in the ticket to give it more visibility through the discussion on the Wikidata chat https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Importing_datasets_under_incompatible_licenses, I thought it was interesting to highlight it a bit more.
Cheers
What wikidata doesn't track the license of each piece of information?!
Am 18.05.2018 um 21:37 schrieb Amirouche Boubekki:
What wikidata doesn't track the license of each piece of information?!
Facts don't *have* licenses. They have sources, and we track those. Which may have licenses, depending on jurisdiction, interpretation, form, content, etc. But the fact itself doesn't, it's not copyrightable.
Facts don't *have* licenses. They have sources, and we track those.
Works well in an environment of no original research. Things get onto another level if I have a fact that is of value in other fields of research. I can then either keep it for myself until it is published in a paper that will be quoted by Wikidata...
...or I need options to state the fact as "herewith published by me and to be quoted as my research..."
I am actually eager to get an environment in which I - as a researcher - can dare to open the box and to play with my research in the open environment.
o.
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Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de hat am 18. Mai 2018 um 22:39 geschrieben:
Am 18.05.2018 um 21:37 schrieb Amirouche Boubekki:
What wikidata doesn't track the license of each piece of information?!
Facts don't *have* licenses. They have sources, and we track those. Which may have licenses, depending on jurisdiction, interpretation, form, content, etc. But the fact itself doesn't, it's not copyrightable.
-- Daniel Kinzler Principal Platform Engineer
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Olaf Simons, 18/05/2018 23:48:
Facts don't*have* licenses. They have sources, and we track those.
Works well in an environment of no original research. Things get onto another level if I have a fact that is of value in other fields of research.
I'm not sure what your message means, but I suspect you're confusing copyright with moral rights (copyright is not the same as author rights) or even patents/inventions.
Federico