[OSM-talk] CC0 in UK, CC0 in USA, sui generis database right and Wikidata

[Mark Wagner]

On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 11:47:22 +0100
Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at gmail.com> wrote:

> tl;dr 
> 
> It may be not OK to import data from Wikidata despite that this
> database is CC0 (adding wikipedia/wikidata tags is still OK, but this
> connection is mostly useless for adding data into OSM).
> 
> It may be necessary to revert some imports of data from Wikidata
> 
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> 
> Note: it is likely that some of what I write below is
> misunderstanding, I am not a lawyer. I would be happy to discover
> that I am wrong and that Wikidata is usable for us.
> 
> In UK and EU putting effort into compiling a database grants a
> property right called sui generis database right (very similar to
> copyright).

Not an issue.  The CC0 license explicitly calls out database rights as
being released to the greatest extent possible.  From the text of the
license (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)

> 1. Copyright and Related Rights include, but are not limited to, the
> following:

> vi. database rights (such as those arising under Directive 96/9/EC of
> the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the
> legal protection of databases, and under any national implementation
> thereof, including any amended or successor version of such
> directive)...

> 2. Waiver. To the greatest extent permitted by, but not in
> contravention of, applicable law, Affirmer hereby overtly, fully,
> permanently, irrevocably and unconditionally waives, abandons, and
> surrenders all of Affirmer's Copyright and Related Rights...

-- 
Mark