On 5 August 2010 22:26, 80n <80n...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Francis > Indeed. Let's start getting specific. The threshold in the US is very low > - which incidentally is where this "you can't copyright facts" stuff > originated.
I may have missed that part of the discussion. If you mean that the US is where the question first arose, then the US is certainly not the only place where this argument has arisen - it was a hot topic in English copyright law in the 19th (and to some extent in the 18th) century. But if you mean that it was the jurisdiction people had in mind when drafting the OdbL then that may well be right (I have no idea bout the history). > > What's the criteria in the EU? Do you know? > "own intellectual creation" Article 3(1) of 96/9/EC: "1. In accordance with this Directive, databases which, by reason of the selection or arrangement of their contents, constitute the author's own intellectual creation shall be protected as such by copyright. No other criteria shall be applied to determine their eligibility for that protection." Exactly what this means in practice is certainly a present hot topic. -- Francis Davey _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
