On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 4:51 PM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoekstra@gmail.com wrote:
I have no dog in this race, but facts are not eligible for copyright protection.
Martijn, individual facts aren't eligible for copyright, but substantial compilations of facts are.
The concept you are missing is "database rights":
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Database_Rights
'Databases may be protected by US copyright law as "compilations." In the EU, databases are protected by the Database Directive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_Directive, which defines a database as "a collection of independent works, data or other materials arranged in a systematic or methodical way and individually accessible by electronic or other means."'
That page (including the above quote) was written by WMF Legal.