[GOAL] [job] WikiFactMine: Open Access Wikimedian In Residence in Cambridge UK

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Heather Morrison <
Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca> wrote:

> >From a copyright perspective:
>
> If work is published under CC-BY and subsequently released by a downstream
> re-user under CC-0, this is a breach of the requirement of attribution,
> isn't it?
>

Facts are not copyrightable and downstream facts would therefore be
released as CC 0.

>
> CC licenses involve waiver of rights under copyright. Using CC-0 on other
> people's work involves asserting copyright in order to waive it. If this
> project is not intending to produce work under copyright it does not make
> sense to assert copyright.
>

CC 0 is NOT an assertion of copyright. It is a dedication (as far as is
legally possible) into the public domain.
See https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0


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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dept. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
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