Thank you for pitching-in Eugene, and thank you everyone for your inputs.
I would like to specify that in the example mentioned by Eugene, the
dataset is not publicly distributed -- but there are extra-legal copies
going around the Internet. The government agency who created the geodata is
the
This is not a particular unique situation, a sovereign country can,
naturally, create exclusive rights or specific regulation for more or
less whatever it cares.
Copyright is simply the most popular, with wide spread understanding and
international treaties as support, set of exclusive
Thanks for the context Eugene.
On the other hand, if an OSM mapper *derives* new data from such a dataset
> (for example, generating a representative point for each polygon, maybe at
> the centroid, or maybe at at the "admin centre" if the polygon represents
> settlements and the mapper used
Hi Kathleen, all,
Just as a bit of reference, the original intellectual property law from
1924, back when the Philippines was a territory of the United States,
didn't have this commercial-with-prior-approval second sentence and was
basically modeled after the U.S. law (government works are fully
On 15/07/2020 21.16, Erwin Olario wrote:
Recently, some edits in the country came to the attention of the community
When you say "the country", what country are we talking about?
I guess from context you mean "the Philippines", but you really ought to
specify.
(I've been editing a bunch
