2011/6/18 John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com>: > Well one assumption I'm making is that everyone is adhering to the > license restrictions placed on them, perhaps this would be easiler > with a solid example. > > OSM-F continues to distribute map tiles under a CC-by-SA license and > for the purpose of this example doesn't have a terms and condition > using their website. > > Someone from the US comes along and derives some data from the tiles > OSM-F produces. > > That same someone then distributes the resulting data under a CC-by-SA > license. > > At any point is anyone in breach of copyright? >
Where do they do all these acts? Jurisdiction may matter. In the UK reconstructing a substantial part of the database from the tiles would almost certainly be an extraction and so potentially infringing the database right unless licensed etc. I think quite likely an infringement of copyright in the database in the UK as well. Quite possibly not an infringement of copyright elsewhere. I simply don't know about that. Generally doing something indirectly via other works cannot be used to launder an infringement in the UK. -- Francis Davey _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk