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Re:Spoofing Google Search Results by jacquesm on Saturday February 16, 2019 @06:31AM (#19178182)
Not only that, the legal status of this info is murky at best and a clear case of copyright violation at worst.
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Re:Spoofing Google Search Results by krn on Saturday February 16, 2019 @07:47AM (#19178358)
I thought the Knowledge Graph was based on Freebase[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase

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Re:Spoofing Google Search Results by blattimwind on Saturday February 16, 2019 @08:13AM (#19178419)
The text usually is from Wikipedia and the tabulated data seems to come from Wikidata.
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Re:Spoofing Google Search Results by kibwen on Saturday February 16, 2019 @08:23AM (#19178446)
Wikipedia's text content is licensed under CC-BY-SA, which means that if Google isn't giving attribution somewhere then they would be in violation of the license.
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Re:Spoofing Google Search Results by dannyw on Saturday February 16, 2019 @08:32AM (#19178472)
Google gives attribution when text content is used.

For simple bibliographical information like who someone’s spouses is, it is not copyrightable, and no attribution is needed.

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Re:Spoofing Google Search Results by btown on Saturday February 16, 2019 @10:14AM (#19178883)
Facts may not be copyrightable, but by academic standards they should still be sourced. Google doesn't derive shareholder value from training people to seek primary sources, though.
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