Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] State Copyright on Spatial Information Products

2009-06-13 Thread Lance Burger
What you are quoting from below is part of the draft policy on pricing referred to by Grant. It is not the law. It might not even be the actual policy. Unless we know for sure that it in fact policy I would not rely on it at all. No policy document can change the law. At best policy might

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] State Copyright on Spatial Information Products

2009-06-13 Thread Lance Burger
We cannot trace from the Government Survey aerial photographs. That would be copying and that argument that tracing is not copying will never succeed in a court. Tracing is just one method of copying. If we can get aerial photographs from another entity that holds the copyright then we can use