2010/11/13 Gerard Vanderveken <g...@ghia.eu> > 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.) > > >
Streetnames are NOT given by the public, its a official decision of the municipality Council, some of them are brand new too.
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