[OSM-legal-talk] Place name translations

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On 16/giu/2013, at 03:47, Erik Johansson <erjohan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > While I agree with Richard, it might be interesting to know that
> > Wikidata (a Wikimedia.de project) is licensed CC-0, and they copy data
> > wholesale from Wikipedia.
>
> that's indeed interesting, how can they throw the original viral licenses
> of Wikipedia overboard?
>

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.
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