There is always a copyright, on data, and in fact on everything written.
Depending on the source and its associated license, we are allowed to
use it in OSM.
Strictly seen the numbers and other texts on the bus, sign poles and
shedules are written by De Lijn and they do also have the copyright to it.
(Must check it once, but I assume it may explicitly be marked on their
shedules with the copyright symbol ©, altough this marking is not needed
to own the copyright. )
They are intended to inform the public, but this does not mean that you
have the right to duplicate for instance the complete shedules and make
them public available.
(I think you will run into big trouble by making similar data as what is
specified in their 'dienstroosters' available in a book or on a website
without having the proper authorisation from De Lijn.
And in the same way, it is not because a movie is showed to the public
that you may duplicate it.
Without some additional legislation to have automatic public domain for
all data from public bodies, it makes no difference if the copyright is
owned by a public or private company.)
Some things like the line numbers and names of the routes could be by
their nature considered as common knowledge and thus public domain, but
being public domain is AFAIK not the case for the 4 digit number and its
source for line and stop numbers.
They should therefore not to be used in OSM
(Streetnames (which are the core of OSM) are different in that respect
as they are given/named by the public and exists for a very long time.)
Ben Laenen wrote:
Gerard Vanderveken wrote:
I tend to consider them as copyrighted material, and thus forbidden to
be used at all with OSM
There's no copyright on factual data. The reason why we cannot import the data
from De Lijn is because of database rights (*).
Ben
(*) actually, some people argue that this data doesn't qualify to be under
database right, but that's another discussion.
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