On 02/10/16 10:56, John Aldridge wrote:
Would one be breaking rules to copy that information to OSM? After all,
the text on the web site will be, AIUI, copyright.)
The question would be whether or not there is a database copyright
involved. The actual facts that you are likely to want will not be
copyrightable, but their aggregation into a database will be.
My take on this is that:
- if you have to use a search engine to find the site, you could
infringe on the database copyright of the search engine operator;
- if the feature is part of a large chain, and they have a "store
locator", you will be infringing the database copyright on the the
locator (although some chains may be happy for you to do this);
- if you use a business directory, that is basically just another search
engine.
However, if you have a direct link to a web page or even web site that
only relates to that one location, and that site is maintained by the
company itself, there will be no database copyright issue and the facts
you would normally extract would not be copyrightable.
Slightly more problematic would be if the business published a link to a
business directory page about itself. I would play safe and assume that
the directory owners may consider it an infringement on their database
rights, even though the business supplied everything on the page.
Narrative descriptions may be copyright and will need to be paraphrased,
if free from database copyrights.
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