On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Nick Hocking <nick.hock...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since taking a photo of something entails little or no "independent > intellectual effort",
In what context? Obviously artistic photography is copyrightable. > Also I believe that the following actions also entail little or no > "independent intellectual effort". > > 1) walking/riding/driving around with a gps turned on and collecting GPS > traces. > 2) Tracing roads from either GPS traces or any imagery. > 3) Copying down street names from a street sign and then adding then to a > traced road. > 4) Noting and publishing the location of POIs. > 5) etc... Who knows. Without a copyright lawyer, I don't think we'll get far by trying to interpret the results of this case. (I would point out that the case seemed to be about processing existing data, not producing it.) Steve _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
