Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OGC Geospatial Rights Management Summit

2009-06-13 Thread John Wilbanks

> On 9 Jun 2009, at 06:27, John Wilbanks wrote:
> 
>> Puneet Kishor, who is a Science Commons Fellow looking at geospatial
>> data and climate change, will be attending and hoisting the facts  
>> can't
>> be copyrighted flag.
> 
> Er, sounds like a red herring to me since they can have database  
> rights and be licensed who cares about the copyright for the purposes  
> of some ridiculous DRM schema that the big licensers will use?
> 
> Best
> 
> Steve

As you've probably noticed around these parts, we argue against using 
those rights no matter who's using them, whether in the name of supposed 
"freedom" or in the name of enclosure.

jtw

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Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OGC Geospatial Rights Management Summit

2009-06-11 Thread Rob Myers
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Tim Waters
(chippy) wrote:
> I find the idea of DRM being used to help ensure and enforce copy-left to be
> quite interesting. (But doubt this conference will cover that)

DRM breaks copyleft and cannot be used to protect it. Sun's DReaM was
aptly named. ;-)

- Rob.

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Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OGC Geospatial Rights Management Summit

2009-06-11 Thread Tim Waters (chippy)
I find the idea of DRM being used to help ensure and enforce copy-left to be
quite interesting. (But doubt this conference will cover that)

On Jun 9, 2009 6:31 AM, "SteveC"  wrote:

I could in theory make it, and I even considered it for about 10
seconds... but I couldn't think what I'd get out of it other than
frustration.

DRM for maps, sorry GeoDRM... what can you say but FAIL ?

Best

Steve

On 5 Jun 2009, at 08:10, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: > Hi all, > > Maybe this
is a bit off-topic fo...
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Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OGC Geospatial Rights Management Summit

2009-06-09 Thread John Wilbanks
Puneet Kishor, who is a Science Commons Fellow looking at geospatial 
data and climate change, will be attending and hoisting the facts can't 
be copyrighted flag.

jtw

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Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:06:00 +0200
From: Frederik Ramm 
Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OGC Geospatial Rights Management Summit
To: "Licensing and other legal discussions."

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Hi,

Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
 > > "Facts are Facts and can't be Copyrighted"

... which ist not exactly the position that OSM is taking on this
matter; in fact, with ODBL we go to great lengths to ensure that even if
our facts should not be copyrightable we still get to say exactly under
what conditions they are used through contract and database law. We're
willing to enter completely uncharted waters and use a new and untested
licensing framework precisely because we do *not* want our data to be
free of any restrictions.

So if you are looking for someone who takes the above position, best
talk to one of the Science Commons guys!

Bye
Frederik

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Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OGC Geospatial Rights Management Summit

2009-06-09 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> > "Facts are Facts and can't be Copyrighted"
>
> ... which ist not exactly the position that OSM is taking on this
> matter; in fact, with ODBL we go to great lengths to ensure that even if
> our facts should not be copyrightable we still get to say exactly under
> what conditions they are used through contract and database law. We're
> willing to enter completely uncharted waters and use a new and untested
> licensing framework precisely because we do *not* want our data to be
> free of any restrictions.
>
> So if you are looking for someone who takes the above position, best
> talk to one of the Science Commons guys!
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
>

That is the basis of Australian law, and recent a High Court decision has 
returned us to that position, carefully deciding that a database, to be 
subject to copyright, had to demonstrate intellectual or artistic input.
So the facts from a map in Australia can't be copyrighted.
The intellectual and artistic work of creating a map results in a map which 
can be copyright.




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Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OGC Geospatial Rights Management Summit

2009-06-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi,

Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> "Facts are Facts and can't be Copyrighted"

... which ist not exactly the position that OSM is taking on this 
matter; in fact, with ODBL we go to great lengths to ensure that even if 
our facts should not be copyrightable we still get to say exactly under 
what conditions they are used through contract and database law. We're 
willing to enter completely uncharted waters and use a new and untested 
licensing framework precisely because we do *not* want our data to be 
free of any restrictions.

So if you are looking for someone who takes the above position, best 
talk to one of the Science Commons guys!

Bye
Frederik


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Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OGC Geospatial Rights Management Summit

2009-06-08 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, SteveC wrote:
> I could in theory make it, and I even considered it for about 10  
> seconds... but I couldn't think what I'd get out of it other than  
> frustration.
>
> DRM for maps, sorry GeoDRM... what can you say but FAIL ?
>
> Best
>
> Steve
Trouble is, these people continue along their merry way if no one ever puts up 
a hand and says
"Facts are Facts and can't be Copyrighted"
back to question 1
has anyone got nothing better to do than upset these people on 22nd June?

-- 
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less
than half of you half as well as you deserve.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien

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Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OGC Geospatial Rights Management Summit

2009-06-08 Thread SteveC
I could in theory make it, and I even considered it for about 10  
seconds... but I couldn't think what I'd get out of it other than  
frustration.

DRM for maps, sorry GeoDRM... what can you say but FAIL ?

Best

Steve


On 5 Jun 2009, at 08:10, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Maybe this is a bit off-topic for this list, but I've noticed that  
> the OGC has
> set up a conference for jun 22th, about something called "Geospatial  
> Rights
> Management":
>
> http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/090622georm
>
> I see that there will be quite some talks about geodata licensing,  
> including
> CC (sadly, no ODbL).
>
> I wonder if some legal-savvy OSM user could attend and return to the  
> list with
> some impressions?
>
>
> Cheers,
> -- 
> --
> Iván Sánchez Ortega 
>
> Truth is the most valuable thing we have -- so let us economize it.
>   -- Mark Twain
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[OSM-legal-talk] OGC Geospatial Rights Management Summit

2009-06-05 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
Hi all,

Maybe this is a bit off-topic for this list, but I've noticed that the OGC has 
set up a conference for jun 22th, about something called "Geospatial Rights 
Management":

http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/090622georm

I see that there will be quite some talks about geodata licensing, including 
CC (sadly, no ODbL). 

I wonder if some legal-savvy OSM user could attend and return to the list with 
some impressions?


Cheers,
-- 
--
Iván Sánchez Ortega 

Truth is the most valuable thing we have -- so let us economize it.
-- Mark Twain


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