On 03/11/2015 12:58 PM, Daniel Kinzler wrote:
Am 11.03.2015 um 12:39 schrieb Jo Walsh:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikidata#Importing_data *Copying data to Wikidata from OSM* (or even from other Wikimedia projects) *is not allowed* because Wikidata uses the public-domain style Creative Commons CC0 license which does not contain any attribution or share-alike provisions. Conversely, data may be copied from Wikidata without restriction.
(OSM is licensed under the Open Database License)
This applies to any copyrightable material. Facts ("this is a lighthouse") are not copyrightable.
Facts are not copyrightable, but in EU a lot of facts are when they are assembled in a database due to sui generis database right.
I suppose that OSM falls under UK law and thereby EU sui generis database right, so systematic extraction of OSM data into Wikidata will constitute a violation in EU of the Open Database License terms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_generis_database_right
/Finn