<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" target="_blank">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 16/giu/2013, at 03:47, Erik Johansson <<a href="mailto:erjohan@gmail.com">erjohan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> While I agree with Richard, it might be interesting to know that<br>
> Wikidata (a Wikimedia.de project) is licensed CC-0, and they copy data<br>
> wholesale from Wikipedia.<br>
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</div>that's indeed interesting, how can they throw the original viral licenses of Wikipedia overboard?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Based on what I've seen, what they are copying from Wikipedia are data and facts. In the US, facts are not copyrightable as facts do not originate from creative authorship and there are no database rights in the US either.<br>
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