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<div>Another point: we agree that facts are not copyrightable. Assuming we are correct in this assumption, there is no argument for limiting this work to material licensed CC-BY. This kind of work could be carried out with material under any kind of license
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<div>From: Peter Murray-Rust <pm286@cam.ac.uk> </div>
<div>Date: 2017-02-27 10:30 AM (GMT-05:00) </div>
<div>To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <goal@eprints.org> </div>
<div>Subject: Re: [GOAL] [job] WikiFactMine: Open Access Wikimedian In Residence in Cambridge UK
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Heather Morrison <span dir="ltr">
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<div>>From a copyright perspective:
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<div>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?</div>
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<div>Facts are not copyrightable and downstream facts would therefore be released as CC 0.
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>CC 0 is NOT an assertion of copyright. It is a dedication (as far as is legally possible) into the public domain.<br>
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<div>See <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0">https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0</a><br>
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<div>Peter Murray-Rust<br>
Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics<br>
Unilever Centre, Dept. Of Chemistry<br>
University of Cambridge<br>
CB2 1EW, UK<br>
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