On Sun, 11 May 2008, Jeffrey Martin wrote: > I agree with the judgment. You can't make a derivative work > without permission. > > OSM and other open source projects give people permission > to create derivative works provided they follow the license > rules. If they could make derivative works without permission > then there would be no way to require compliance with the > license.
Our problem lies in "indirect copying" rather than making a derivative work. Does the local council have copyright on the street signs from which I have copied the names? These matters have not been explored in Australian case law except in 2 cases. I would rather seek protection now for our means of collection of the data which can be argued in a "public interest" way rather than find OSM data for Australia having to be purged from the database. Liz _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk
