On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Andreas Perstinger <andreas.perstin...@gmx.net> wrote: > As I understand it, there must be someone who "owns" the database because > otherwise you can't defend it legally. Would you prefer a single person?
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Andreas Perstinger <andreas.perstin...@gmx.net> wrote: > On 2010-12-08 15:46, Anthony wrote: >> >> I'm not sure what you mean by "owns the database". The copyright? >> The database right? Something else? > > I mean the database right. For the european database directive (which is a > protection for the investment into the database and not for the data > ("Leistungsschutzrecht" in german)) you need someone who owns the database. Then no one should own the database right. The OSMF certainly should not, because a very small portion of contributors are members of the OSMF. And it's not really any better for the OSM community as a whole to own the database right, especially under a "one person, one vote" scenario. Why should two people who contribute one node a month be able to override the wishes of one person who contributes 10 million nodes a month? So the only viable solution, IF the database right cannot be held by the individual contributors, is to waive the database right altogether. This also has the advantage of creating a situation where people in some jurisdictions don't have advantages to people in other jurisdictions. In any case, who would you say owns the database right *right now*? How do the CTs change this? >> Who "owns" Wikipedia? > > I think there is a big difference between a project like Wikipedia (where > the single texts are copyright protected) and OSM (where most/all of the > data is not copyright protected). Agreed. But that doesn't answer my question. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk