On 23 July 2010 22:14, Liz <ed...@billiau.net> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Richard Weait wrote: >> If you find planet on a bus you are not finding just a pile of ordered >> ones and zeros. It's on media of some type. You might sell the disk >> as is, but copying the data and selling it would be legally risky. A >> Reasonable Person[2] would understand that there could be copyright >> works included in the data on the disk. > > We've already discussed that this would have copyright on it, but any licence > imposed under contract provisions is lost, because the finder did not agree to > the licence.
However, the end result is effectively the same: with no copyright statement, the default is "All rights reserved", so the only way the finder can do anything whatsoever with the work is go to www.osm.org and establish a contract. Cheers _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
