On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com> wrote: > [reordered to place copyright matters together] >> From: Pieren [mailto:pier...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:26 AM >> To: Licensing and other legal discussions. >> Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Question about copyrighted hiking routes >> in France >> >> Again, you have to understand that this sport organization (FFRP) is >> publishing hiking bookguides and maps of their routes. It is their main >> income (plus some subsidies from the state). The FFRP made this >> trademark and copyright to protect them against commercial competitors >> on their market : their hiking routes. > > Oh, I understand why they don't want competition. I'm sure any map publisher > would be happy with less competition.
I don't if FFRP pays for up keep of those paths. But here around Stockholm we have 1000km of paths and they are maintained by the organization "owning" the copyright/trademark on it. So the money goes to the paths. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
