> > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:35 AM, maning sambale > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You didn't read the whole sentence: > >>> ways that are contributed PD only, > > Of course at this point your eye is mysteriously drawn to the elephant > in the room, which is "what deserves copyright protection?". > > Adding a couple of nodes to a way to neaten out the curve: no way. > > Simple tracing from Yahoo or NPE: nope, probably not, unless your > jurisdiction is _really_ friendly towards "sweat of the brow". (Most > aren't AIUI.) > > Putting your GPS on the dashboard, following a road for 30 miles, > getting home, uploading the track, then faithfully tracing along it: > doesn't look much like original creative work to me. > > Large-scale I-plucked-this-out-of-my-ass "creative mapping" bearing no > relation to the facts on the ground, like someone has just done in > Cheadle, Staffordshire, UK: yeah, that probably deserves copyright > protection. And taking outside and shooting. >
Imho, neither talk nor legal-talk (the two lists to which this post was made) are the appropriate venue for this discussion. Should this discussion more appropriately be continued on [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's chicken and egg here; until people use the new list it won't be used. Regards, Peter > cheers > Richard > > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
