On 11/08/11 16:20, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote:
I see no difference in re-publishing text, as in our email lists
and the database, properly citing Google as source.
You are correct. Both are breaches of copyright where it applies.
There are two important differences though.
Firstly custom and fair use are on the side of quoting emails in
conversations.
Secondly, Google haven't taken all your maps and incorporated them but
you have quoted many other people's emails.
You will probably say then that Google's license prohibits that use
-even when attributing- and then I come back to my (much earlier)
statement that licenses are there to restrict free use of data, not to
allow.
To the extent that databases are covered by rights or contracts that is
false.
Anyway, if default IP right allows for citing when attributing, why
do our users need to agree to a ODBL license ?
Allow or require?
Is there anything more that we like them to comply with ?
To pass on the freedom they receive.
But if you want data to be PD, make it PD and then someone else can
incorporate it into the database under the CTs.
I really don't see what the problem is.
- Rob.
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