On 2011-07-07 08:48, Anthony wrote:
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Andreas Perstinger
<andreas.perstin...@gmx.net> wrote:
On 2011-07-07 08:24, John Smith wrote:
Wouldn't it be great if we could all wish away inconvenient laws like
that, however morality often drives laws and they tend seem to think
map content is protected under copyright.
But I've just showed you that there are countries where this is clearly not
the case.
You've done nothing of the sort.
I know it's not a good idea to post a German text on a English mailing
list, but the link I've posted says that in Austria a map is not
protected by copyright if it just reproduces geographical facts. This is
the general view of the highest court in my country.
Here is one example where this general rule was applied (sorry it's
again in German):
http://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/Justiz/JJT_19920114_OGH0002_0040OB00125_9100000_000/JJT_19920114_OGH0002_0040OB00125_9100000_000.html
Short summary: A map publishing company produced a map of the state
Lower Austria (Oberösterreich) which showed all camping grounds within
the state. The state itself was shown in another colour than the
neighbouring states. Another organisation reduced the size of the map,
desaturated it and published it without attribution. The plaintiff lost.
Bye, Andreas
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