Maybe I should comment on this before we go to far astray.
The country which Lukas is referring to just happens to have no database
protection statutes specifically no sui generis database protection.
Given that the EU only offers such protection to databases from foreign
entities if the country
Hi,
On 09/18/2015 02:11 PM, Simone Aliprandi wrote:
> We should better understand the meaning of "substantial portion". What
> about a script that extracts systematically single facts
> (not-copyrightable) from the database?
It is widely accepted that repeatedly extracting non-substantial parts
a
> Frederik's perspective on question 4 seems correct to me. Speaking
> imprecisely (by necessity, given national differences on these questions),
> IP rights attach to the creative form that expressions of fact take; and,
> in the EU, the collective form of those facts when arranged into a
> databa
Frederik's perspective on question 4 seems correct to me. Speaking
imprecisely (by necessity, given national differences on these questions),
IP rights attach to the creative form that expressions of fact take; and,
in the EU, the collective form of those facts when arranged into a
database. The fa
On 9/16/2015 6:03 AM, Toggenburger Lukas wrote:
Case 1:
Is it legal/desired to look up the address of a particular POI on online maps
like Bing map (https://www.bing.com/maps/), search.ch (http://map.search.ch),
Google Maps (https://www.google.ch/maps/) or Swiss cantonal geoportals to
determin
Lukas,
IMHO a single fact is not copyrightable so if you take details about
the POI from the web site run by the POI operator themselves, you should
be fine.
However if you take the same information from a collection (your
difference between 4 and 1), then the maintainer of that collection
cou
Dear list
I am indirectly involved in the following situation: In the context of a
research project a team wants to add a list of POIs (libraries) to the OSM
database. The names of the libraries, their postal addresses, the address of
the websites, and further details of the libraries are known
