Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSGeo-Discuss] Promoting freely available geodata
SteveC wrote: The very quick story is that they don't believe copyright can be applied to any geospatial data. Thus creative commons licenses don't work, since The thing with that argument is that there are lots of people with data and money who probably hold the opposite view, eg Ordnance Survey. This was data only right, not cartographic interpretations eg maps? they depend on copyright. So people providing data have two options - public domain or make a contract that completely restricts it. To add to that, if anyone really believed that then we'd all be copying out the vector data and street names from tons of maps... so something's not right? have fun, SteveC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.asklater.com/steve/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSGeo-Discuss] Promoting freely available geodata
SteveC wrote: Chris Holmes wrote: Do you have a link to the Database Directive stuff on osm-talk? I checked out the list but there's a lot there and wasn't sure which posts to read. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_directive mostly it just follows from that page... maybe richard could help more? Sure. The database right has only been discussed sporadically on legal-talk so it's probably better to go to the sources. Definitely, definitely read http://edina.ac.uk/projects/grade/gradeDigitalRightsIssues.pdf because it's a very cogent and readable discussion of copyright and database right as they apply to geodata. It's almost exactly the question we're asking, the only unknown being that for a collaborative project like OSM, we also have to consider who owns the database right - OSM Foundation (maybe as maker of the database) or the individual users (traditionally believed to be the copyright holders in OSM circles). If you want to know more about EU database right then the definitive case is William Hill vs British Horseracing Board. Google will turn up zillions on this, but make sure any commentary you read was written after the European Courts of Justice ruling (it had been to lots of prior appeals). Don't forget differences between jurisdictions: - US - geodata can't be copyrighted, no database right exists - EU - geodata can't be copyrighted (according to paper cited above) but is subject to database right Insert maybe and probably in the above sentences until you're happy with them :) cheers Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
