[okfn-discuss] [open-development] Factual - wikipedia for data

Wed Oct 14 01:26:45 UTC 2009

On Oct 13, 2009, at 6:49 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote:

> Wow! From their Terms of Service page
> (http://www.factual.com/others/tos) it looks like all their data is
> (effectively) open:
>
> "Data. Raw data, facts, and general ideas are not protected by
> copyright law.

As it very well should be. Nice to know of this resource.

> You acknowledge that Factual may host, serve,
> reproduce, distribute, and allow the modification of data uploaded and
> made publicly available in connection with the Site or Services, and
> that other Factual users may reproduce, distribute, modify,
> manipulate, or build upon such data. Likewise, you may reproduce,
> distribute, modify, and manipulate or build upon data publicly
> available on Factual, subject to all conditions and disclaimers in
> these Terms of Use. In some cases, the use of certain data may be
> subject to a third-party agreement; it is your responsibility to honor
> such agreements including, where applicable, to make others aware of
> any agreements conditioning your or their use, distribution, or
> manipulation of such data. Notwithstanding the above, and for the
> avoidance of doubt, Factual's Privacy Policy describes how we use and
> protect publicly unavailable privacy-related data associated with your
> and others users' use of Factual."
>
> Very exciting!
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Vinay <hexayurt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.factual.com/
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