On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 4:51 PM, Martijn Hoekstra <martijnhoekstra(a)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.