On 12/14/13 12:46 AM, Russ Nelson wrote: > In an email conversation with the contacts for the NYSDECLands data, > they agreed with me that the data is a list of facts about the > world. That means that it's not copyrightable -- even if they try to > claim a copyright anyway, you can't enforce a copyright on something > that is not material subject to copyright. Unfortunately, that > exchange was recorded on a computer that went back to Cloudmade, and > so is probably lost to history. > thanks for clarifying that, i knew you'd imported that and had always wondered about the copyright status.
unfortunately, that's only one contributor to the NY GIS consortium, and there are many with whom you'd have to try to have that conversation. richard
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