Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Permissibility of incorporating parts of an address from a business' website

2013-04-25 Thread Pieren
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:25 AM, Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es wrote: Would it make a difference if the business is a large chain and had more than one address (possible a lot more than one address) on its website? In that case, you're doing a repeated extraction of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Permissibility of incorporating parts of an address from a business' website

2013-04-25 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/4/25 Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es The answer to this might be different if your jurisdiction doesn't apply the european database directive. But which is the relevant jurisdiction, the one the mapper is in, or the one the database is in (i.e. where you perform the actual

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Permissibility of incorporating parts of an address from a business' website

2013-04-25 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/4/25 Pieren pier...@gmail.com I'm not sure it has to do with non-substantial amounts of data. But business websites publishing their own address or list of addresses is reallly intended to be shared and republished everywhere. I'd also see it like this, it is quite unlikely that they

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Permissibility of incorporating parts of an address from a business' website

2013-04-25 Thread Kevin Peat
On 25 April 2013 11:14, Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es wrote: The folks who drafted the EU DB directive most likely were not aware that in a near future, a person from a country A could put data about country B in a DB inside a computer in a country C... But in their world view

[OSM-legal-talk] Permissibility of incorporating parts of an address from a business' website

2013-04-24 Thread Michael
Hi, is it permissible to incorporate parts of an address (I would be especially interested in house numbers) from a business' (or other POI's) website, if said business is already mapped in OpenStreetMap. What I mean is for example if 'John Doe's Coffee-Shop' had a website that says 'we're