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

[Adam Raizen]

Delirium wrote:
> 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

This is what I figured also, though IANAL.

--Adam Raizen