Hi, On 19 July 2010 23:16, Simon Ward <si...@bleah.co.uk> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:04:55PM +0100, Emilie Laffray wrote: >> This is the same about anything using contract law. Someone breaking the >> contract and redistributing it doesn't remove the contract that is given >> with the data. They are still obliged to follow the contract even if they >> "didn't sign for it". I would be amazed that such a loophole exists in the >> first place. > > To my knowledge the contract isn’t automatically transferred, although > it occurs to me that it could be a condition of the licence that the > contract is also adhered to. I’m not sure this is the case.
I don't think you can make a contract that obliges everyone in the world (everyone who may ride a bus) to do something. You can have a contract where the party is responsible for any damage you suffer from them not adhering to the contract (e.g. leaving the planet on the bus). If you find a planet on a bus there's no contract you may be affected by. There may be copyright, which may protect the content. If there's nothing written on it then you basically have to assume "All rights reserved", provided there's any originality, creativity etc. in that planet dump which is not confirmed. I don't know what database rights directive says about such cases. The only way you could be bound by some kind of contract is if the planet dump was made in such a way that you'd have to push some button or click through something or visit a website to make use of it, for example because it was encrypted. But then if someone decides to not adhere to the license and leave the planet on the bus they may just as well strip all this information. Cheers _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
