> I am quite ignorant about the EU directive and it is beyond my ability to > understand what is stated in it.
The problem is, I don’t have the slightest idea how this all plays out in Japan. The only thing I would imagine is that there are some similiar protection laws because Japan signed the TRIPS agreement. Art. 10 par. II of TRIPS requires some protection. That is probably as close as I can get about your situation. I think there may be some provisions found in ACTA, which Japan seems to have signed. So for OSM hosters in Japan, there could be implications. Does anybody know? Most servers are however located within the EU (for now), so EU law should remain our focus. > someone publishing data about their OWN shops (or other types of objects) → > not passing barrier of protection > > someone publishing data about shops where there was "substantial" effort into > making database → > protected That would be my line of argument, because compiling information about _your own shop_ will be trivial most of the time. There are, of course, other situations. However opening hours is such an ordinary piece of data, it will seem ridiculous someone claiming any sort of effort while compiling it for his/her own business. Within the few cases I have found, the parties claim hundreds of thousands of € in costs for creating databases. The distinction is not 100% safe, but in my opinion this constitutes an acceptable guideline. Any effort of a third party gathering information about others should for safety be considered substantial. At last – what’s the difference in reading a printed sign on the street and a shops website stating the opening hours for our purpose? Opinions? About these TESCO claims… some seem quite outlandish indeed. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
