[Imports] Importing japanese train stations from Wikipedia

[Fabien SK]

Le 11/10/2012 23:54, Paul Norman a écrit :
> Wouldn't any Wikipedia information be under CC BY-SA and therefore
> unsuitable for importing? 

I asked on the Wikipedia discussion page of the «Trains in Japan»
project  [1]. Someone told me that names (that is the only information I
retrieved in Wikipedia) cannot copyrighted, so I should be able do to
use them. I would be glad if it were the case, but I'm not a lawyer.
I have read two articles [2] [3] about judgements ruling that phone
directories cannot be copyrighted, they are not creative work. I don't
see how directories are different than a database of names (I used in
Wikipedia the relationship between kanji name, romaji name, and romaji
name).
Anyway, I prefer to play it safe, hence this discussion :-)

Cheers,
Fabien

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Trains_in_Japan#Free_Data_source_for_stations_names
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural
[3] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100212/0220428141.shtml