Thanks for the link.
It's good to see a court decision reminding parties that (in Canada) there is no copyright in data. >From the court decision: "However, there is no principle of property law that would preclude anyone from making use of information displayed in a publicly available paper nautical chart, even if the information originated with the Crown or is maintained by the Crown." It looks like with the summary motion dismissed and the matter going to trial will be what the Crown granted exclusive license to one of the parties in the case. My reading is that if the Crown only licensed the information (one reading of the contract) then the case cannot succeed because the party who initiated the case would of not had exclusive rights as the data does not have any exclusive rights (or any rights) that could be licensed. On the other hand, an alternate reading of the contract is that the Crown licensed the data and CHS Works (paper charts), in which case that party would have had some exclusive rights. Of course this leaves open the question of if those rights were infringed, which gets to an interesting question for OSM because it boils down to distinguishing between data which is not protected by copyright and a map, which may be. From: Begin Daniel [mailto:jfd...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 4:00 AM To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-ca] Copyright in data Bonjour all, here is a link here that might be interesting for those of you that are interested in legal matter concerning data http://www.teresascassa.ca/index.php?option=com_k2 <http://www.teresascassa.ca/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=124:federal -court-of-appeal-reminds-government-there-is-no-copyright-in-data> &view=item&id=124:federal-court-of-appeal-reminds-government-there-is-no-cop yright-in-data Daniel
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