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It would be great to have some serious bibliographic data on academic journal articles. Would it be within copyright law to download biblographic data from a proprietary index and then use a custom script to extract and repackege the data into a freebase friendly form and then to bulk upload the lot?
It seems to me that as long as all the information in the index is available freely to be public, this should not be a violation of copyright. Obviously a distinction would have to be made between those indexes which simply provide publically available bibliographic data and those which actually generate content that could be considered proprietary (e.g., an index which provides an abstracting service).
Would any copyright experts care to weigh in on this?
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Looks similar to the corporate stock photo, so I wanted to double-check the copyright status. Thanks!
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I suspect it was uploaded under the terms of fair use, but for some reason the image page doesn't say so. I'll check with the guy who uploaded it (I'm copying his user profile on this thread.)
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Thank you for looking into it! Fair use for me is a bit different than copyright free (or some CC flavor) because it would impact the commercial use possibilities.
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Yup, that's certainly true. If you're looking for stuff that's absolutely OK for commercial use, I suggest you use a MQL query to look into the license on an image, and limit it to those which have licenses that fit for your purposes (i.e. PD, CC-BY, or whatever). I can help you with that if you're unfamiliar with how to do it.
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Totally unfamiliar, but I do know other similar languages, so if you had an example that was close, I could disect and repurpose it. Thank you!
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There are examples and documentation in the help center. If you only need to look at a couple of images, you can do it manually; the licensed pictures have a little license icon at the bottom. Unfortunately, some of the older images (like this one) were loaded before we required a license assertion for each one.
If you are loading many images at once, I would imagine that your application would require some other MQL usage anyway just to find them.
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benjamin, here are two queries I threw together yesterday which might help you.
The first one gets a bunch of topics and any images associated with them, then tells you the license those images are under:
[
{
"/common/topic/image" : [
{
"/common/licensed_object/license" : [],
"id" : null,
"name" : null
}
],
"id" : null,
"limit" : 20,
"name" : null,
"type" : "/people/person"
}
]
This second one is roughly the same, but excludes licenses of a certain type -- in this case Fair Use:[
{
"/common/topic/image" : [
{
"/common/licensed_object/license" : [
{
"id" : null,
"name" : null
}
],
"id" : null,
"name" : null,
"nofu:/common/licensed_object/license" : [
{
"id" : "/en/fair_use",
"optional" : "forbidden"
}
]
}
],
"id" : null,
"limit" : 20,
"name" : null,
"type" : "/people/person"
}
]
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