On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Frederik Ramm<frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Matt Amos wrote: >> my understanding is that, because we have database rights (and >> possibly other IP rights) in the original database, the re-created >> database is still (a substantial extract of) an ODbL licensed >> database. > > So you can create a substantial extract of a database without ever > having had access to the database in any form; in fact, without even > knowing that it exists?
oh yes indeed. an analogy would be if i were handed a sheet of handwritten script and i photocopied it - i might be reproducing a copyrighted poem/short story/haiku without ever knowing that it was copyrighted. of course, it would be difficult to sue me, as i was not aware of the infringement, but it would be easy to prevent me distributing any more photocopies. and it wouldn't make the photocopies i had already distributed "free" in any way. also, because ODbL requires attribution which states that the original data was ODbL licensed, it would be harder to claim that i didn't know the database even exists. cheers, matt _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
