Thanks Alex. I'm interested specifically in US law for this talk. I'm familiar with copyright law and how it applies to geospatial data. However, most of what I know about licensing comes from software and the local agency licenses for geospatial data that I deal with.
I'll do some more poking around. Landon On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Alex Mandel <tech_...@wildintellect.com> wrote: > On 03/13/2012 10:06 AM, Landon Blake wrote: >> OSGeo Folks: >> >> I'm giving a talk to CCVGPG (http://www.ccvgpg.org), our local GIS >> user group this Friday. My talk will be about copyright and licensing >> of geospatial data. I've found a good amount of information on >> copyright and a bit on its application to GIS. However, I haven't >> found much at all in the way of information about the licensing of >> geospatial data. If you have some references I can investigate, I >> would appreciate that. >> >> Or, if you work for an organization that had to make decisions about >> the licensing of geospatial data, and you'd be willing to discuss >> things you considered as part of that decision process, please let me >> know. >> >> I'll post a link to a video of the talk if recording and editing goes OK. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Landon > > > In the US or internationally(There are some other rules in the EU). > Data is not typically copyrightable in the US because it's not usually > considered a creative work. That's probably why you haven't found much > about it. > > Example, road atlas sneaks in a fake road stub - a creative addition, > hence copyrightable, along with their cartography (color choices etc, > bound in a particular way). That's why an atlas can have copyright. > > As for licensing, I've not seen anything standard, every service seems > to write up their own for what you can and can't do with data they > provide you. I think this all ends up as contracting law. The typical > from using various map APIs seems to be you can use our data as long as > you show our copyright and don't transfer the data outside of our > API/Progams (E.g. no printing). You might want to look at licensing more > generally rather than specific to geospatial. > > Now of course those court cases about parcels in California are all > about if the court think parcel data is data or software. > > Thanks, > Alex > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss