Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread davespod
Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > Let me try copyright-only examples. > I can take up the full text of all of the works of William > Shakespeare, compile it into a book with annotations, and release the > book under CC-BY-SA. Now since the original text by Shakespeare is > already in the public domain

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 June 2011 02:40, Rob Myers wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:07 AM, John Smith > wrote: >> Then you have a whole other argument over what constitutes a produced >> work and so on. > > It's a novel concept, to be sure. but if you want to understand it > better you can always ask the licenc

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 June 2011 02:26, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > I don't think you're going to get clear answers about these specific > cases. It will take a court decision to provide precedent rulings on > such things. Well the copyright side of things seems pretty simple, especially if people are using CC0/

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread Rob Myers
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:07 AM, John Smith wrote: > Then you have a whole other argument over what constitutes a produced > work and so on. It's a novel concept, to be sure. but if you want to understand it better you can always ask the licence's authors on odc-discuss. - Rob. signature.asc

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:07 AM, John Smith wrote: > On 18 June 2011 01:46, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: >> Let me try copyright-only examples. >> >> I can take up the full text of all of the works of William >> Shakespeare, compile it into a book with annotations, and release the >> book under CC

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 June 2011 01:46, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > Let me try copyright-only examples. > > I can take up the full text of all of the works of William > Shakespeare, compile it into a book with annotations, and release the > book under CC-BY-SA. Now since the original text by Shakespeare is > alre

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread Rob Myers
On 17/06/11 15:39, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > > 1. IIRC the newer versions of CC-By-SA include statements to ensure > that the content is not protected by database rights, patents or DRM, > which would prevent their uses. Does that mean that only the older > licenses can be used for produced wor

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:44 PM, John Smith wrote: > On 18 June 2011 00:40, Frederik Ramm wrote: >> I am not trying to apply patents to OSM. I am trying to use the example of >> patents to prove to you that your reasoning "either something is CC-BY-SA or >> it isn't" is, in this simplicity, inva

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 June 2011 00:50, Simon Poole wrote: > > > Am 17.06.2011 16:39, schrieb andrzej zaborowski: > > ... >> >> 2. What happens if a person in country A with database rights >> publishes a tileset and licenses it under CC-By-SA to a person in >> country B without database rights?  The second person

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread Simon Poole
Am 17.06.2011 16:39, schrieb andrzej zaborowski: ... 2. What happens if a person in country A with database rights publishes a tileset and licenses it under CC-By-SA to a person in country B without database rights? The second person is then as far as I can see not bound by database rights or

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/17/11 16:39, andrzej zaborowski wrote: 1. IIRC the newer versions of CC-By-SA include statements to ensure that the content is not protected by database rights, patents or DRM, which would prevent their uses. News to me. Do you have a pointer? It is true that CC-BY-SA, for as long a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread Francis Davey
2011/6/17 andrzej zaborowski : > > 2. What happens if a person in country A with database rights > publishes a tileset and licenses it under CC-By-SA to a person in > country B without database rights?  The second person is then as far > as I can see not bound by database rights or a contract.  Is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 June 2011 00:40, Frederik Ramm wrote: > I am not trying to apply patents to OSM. I am trying to use the example of > patents to prove to you that your reasoning "either something is CC-BY-SA or > it isn't" is, in this simplicity, invalid; that there may well exist > limitations external to t

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/17/11 16:35, John Smith wrote: I am trying to make a general point about the scope of CC licenses, to which the "patents" example is relevant. Do you or do you not agree, that if a picture describing a patent is made available under CC-BY-SA (and NOT CC-BY-ND), one's ability to implem

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi, (this is offtopic, I know) On 17 June 2011 16:06, Frederik Ramm wrote: > On 06/17/11 11:18, John Smith wrote: >>> >>> Only if the amount of data traced is not substantial. >> >> CC-by-SA makes no such distinction, it's either cc-by-sa or it's not >> cc-by-sa, so which license can tiles be put

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 June 2011 00:32, Rob Myers wrote: > On 06/17/11 16:06, John Smith wrote: >> So once again I'm met with silence and can only assume that produced >> works licensed under cc-by or cc-by-sa can be derived from, > > Do read the discussions I had with odc-discuss when someone asked about > this b

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 June 2011 00:30, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 06/17/11 16:20, John Smith wrote: >> >> Patents don't apply here > > I am trying to make a general point about the scope of CC licenses, to which > the "patents" example is relevant. > > Do you or do you not agree, that if a picture describi

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread Rob Myers
On 06/17/11 16:06, John Smith wrote: > So once again I'm met with silence and can only assume that produced > works licensed under cc-by or cc-by-sa can be derived from, Do read the discussions I had with odc-discuss when someone asked about this before: http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/odc-discus

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/17/11 16:20, John Smith wrote: Patents don't apply here I am trying to make a general point about the scope of CC licenses, to which the "patents" example is relevant. Do you or do you not agree, that if a picture describing a patent is made available under CC-BY-SA (and NOT CC-B

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread John Smith
On 17 June 2011 18:38, Rob Myers wrote: > Data from an ODbL database may however be used to create a BY-SA > Produced Work. So this means produced works can be traced into a cc-by-sa data set then? ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.o

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread Rob Myers
On 17/06/11 09:34, Steve Bennett wrote: > > Also, a question I should probably know the answer to: is ODbL > considered compatible with CC-BY-SA? Can you relicense something that > is CC-BY-SA as ODbL? (I guess the answer must be yes, but could > someone confirm?) The answer is no, unless the pe