Henrik's Wikipedia article traffic statistics tool does not indicate copyright or license status, so it's not clear if I can include a chart on a Wikipedia page. Does anyone know the license status for the charts?
-Aude
2009/6/30 Aude aude.wiki@gmail.com:
Henrik's Wikipedia article traffic statistics tool does not indicate copyright or license status, so it's not clear if I can include a chart on a Wikipedia page. Does anyone know the license status for the charts?
Facts aren't usually copyrightable and I doubt database rights apply (I don't know much about them, though), so it's just the presentation of the data in a chart that could potentially be protected. If you take the numbers and produce your own chart you'll be absolutely fine. I'm not sure there is enough creativity or work involved in making the charts for them to be copyrightable anyway.
That said, the easiest solution is probably just to ask the creator to release them under CC-BY-SA here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Henrik
Facts aren't usually copyrightable and I doubt database rights apply (I don't know much about them, though), so it's just the presentation of the data in a chart that could potentially be protected. If you take the numbers and produce your own chart you'll be absolutely fine. I'm not sure there is enough creativity or work involved in making the charts for them to be copyrightable anyway.
That said, the easiest solution is probably just to ask the creator to release them under CC-BY-SA here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Henrik
They might not be, but with that San Francisco bus data issue [1] happening at the moment, everyone's checking everything these days to cover their asses.
[1]. The Battle Over Who Owns Bus Arrival Times: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090628/1419595382.shtml
K. Peachey wrote:
They might not be, but with that San Francisco bus data issue [1] happening at the moment, everyone's checking everything these days to cover their asses.
[1]. The Battle Over Who Owns Bus Arrival Times: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090628/1419595382.shtml
So why should a local squabble cause such a paranoid panic?
Ec
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 09:01, Ray Saintongesaintonge@telus.net wrote:
[1]. The Battle Over Who Owns Bus Arrival Times:
So why should a local squabble cause such a paranoid panic?
Cos they're living in the United States of Litigations? ;-)
g
On Jun 30, 2009, at 3:13 AM, Aude wrote:
Henrik's Wikipedia article traffic statistics tool does not indicate copyright or license status, so it's not clear if I can include a chart on a Wikipedia page. Does anyone know the license status for the charts?
base data is in public domain (the one used by Henrik's, and other tools). not sure if Henrik has placed any limitations on charts themselves :-)
Domas
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