2009/10/7 Matthew Somerville <[email protected]>: > Francis Davey wrote: >> There's a lot of loose talk and paranoia about this sort of thing. > > Sure, and I think others have taken legal advice which disagrees with > yours. No-one has the money to actually see if it's true in court. And
I don't think they have taken such advice (please point me to any you know about). I think you are misunderstanding what I am saying and I am quite sure I am right about it. If you want to generate your own map, copying someone else's map is *of course* an infringement of any copyright they may have in it. > so freethepostcode, and OSM, and etc. will not take such derived data, > just in case. OSM FAQ on the issue is at > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FAQ#Why_don.27t_you_just_use_Google_Maps.2Fwhoever_for_your_data.3F > OSM's FAQ is infelicitous in saying "because the data is copyrighted" because you can't copyright data but the meaning is plain. A map is a work in which copyright can subsist, if you copy it (or copy parts of it) then you infringe any copyright in it. It does not matter how the map is represented or presented to you, if what you do is end up with a copy then you are potentially infringing it. But what we are talking about does not involve the copying of a map or a part of it, or making an adaptation of it. > They're even more not sure about aerial photos - Yahoo! have said Rightly worried, though obviously its less clear. > OpenStreetMap can use theirs, and they're currently asking Google to > make the same declaration. Yes, I know all this. However its got nothing to do with the point I am making. If I use a map to find somewhere (which may not be a point marked on the map of course) and extract (by measurement - which is what clicking on an image will do) a lat/long coordinate, that action does not involve the copying of the map in any way or making a derived work even if I do this lots and lots and lots of times. -- Francis Davey _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
