No. Using spatial information might or might not be making a derivative work. If it involves using the information on a map (positions of data points) and uploading it to OSM it would be an infringement.
I need to correct that the reference in my previous e-mail to section 6 of the Copyright Act should have been to section 7, as maps probably fall under the definition of artistic words, rather than literary works. Using a copyrighted work as such is not an infringement (it is not an infringement to read a book which is subject to copyright), but both reproducing the work and making an adaptation of the work are infringements in terms of section 7. Lance Burger -----Original Message----- From: Bernd Jendrissek [mailto:bernd.jendris...@gmail.com] Sent: 12 June 2009 03:51 PM To: Lance Burger Cc: brendan barrett; Grant Slater; Openstreetmap ZA Subject: Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] State Copyright on "Spatial Information Products" On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Lance Burger<lance.bur...@mweb.co.za> wrote: > I had a look at the Spatial Data Infrastructure Act 54 of 2003 (now an Act, > no longer a bill as referred to in the draft policy mention by Grant). > There is nothing in that SDI Act that indicates that authorizes one to copy > the data in which the State holds the copyright. Are you saying that "using spatial information products and services, or parts thereof" does not mean to include "... to make a derivative work"? _______________________________________________ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
