On 18 June 2011 19:48, Francis Davey <fjm...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Well this is why I asked if the second party was in the US. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
