Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-34115-20180618163709/@comment-34115-20180623154133

A translation is inherently a derivative work of the databook and subject to the databook's copyright.

I'd hope to go a little further than paraphrasing. But "facts" and "meaning" are not copyrighted, what is copyrighted is "expression". The text chosen by the author to represent that meaning, and any text derived from that expression. You can write something new from scratch that covers the same meaning and it will be a different expression. The goal would be to read the text, understand what the meaning is, and then write something new that has the same facts in it.