Gervase Markham wrote: > The notion of derivative works is a fairly well defined one under > copyright law. Many, many companies deal with this concept every day.
-Right, so having an overlay with proprietary data on an OSM map is derived? As a separate layer? If it's merged in one image instead, is it then derived? -If I print a book with pretty OSM maps which are used to describe bicycle routes. Is the map figure derived, the route description or the book? -If I print an OSM map in my book, do I derive work from OSM and attribute them? Or do I derive from the works of 10,000 contributors and have to print a 200 page appendix to my 10page leaflet, naming all contributors? -If I am a company in Togo, does copyright law from the US or Togo apply? As a foreign company, would I dare to get myself into possible trouble as some OSM contributor in Utah sues me there? I am not so sure that copyright is very well defined and clear cut for all of these uses. In some countries you can transfer your copyright to others, in some countries that is not possible at all. I am not saying these issues are not solvable, but they make things very complicated and ambiguous. spaetz _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk
