[WikiEN-l] Bot for generating articles on cities in Israel

[Delirium]

Ray Saintonge wrote:

> I've looked at the site and found this in the copyright notice:
>
>    User must respect the "moral rights" of the CBS and the State of
>    Israel in the copyrighted material. Therefore, when quoting from
>    the copyrighted material, User must attribute the source to the
>    Central Bureau of Statistics of the State of Israel. In addition,
>    User may not alter, modify or in any other fashion change the
>    copyrighted material, and may not do any other act which might
>    diminish the value of the copyrighted material in a manner which
>    would cast aspersion on the State of Israel or on the CBS.
>
>
> It seems to me that using this material could at least in part be a 
> violation of copyrights.. Has anyone looked into this.

If we're just using the statistics, and not the original wording, it 
should be fine, at least in the US, where courts have ruled that mere 
factual information is not protected by copyright (even if the original 
publisher went to a lot of trouble to collect it).

-Mark