On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Nic Roets <[email protected]> wrote: >> "I only infringed a little bit" is still infringing. > > My understanding is that extracting a single fact from a single source > is always legal (in the US, in the UK, everywhere).
Unfortunately in our case, the distinction between a single small fact and systematically copying data from one database to another is very thin, and we want to prevent both infringement and the appearance of infringement. > Journalists > extracts small amounts of facts from many individual sources all day > long and rarely get into trouble. But those times when they do get in trouble, it's costly. For this community, costly could hurt the project in a severe way. > If we extract only 1 address per website, the vast majority of those > pages will be home pages and business websites. People who would > approve of what we are doing if it is brought to their attention. So > it's a symbiotic relationship. That's not quite the same as what I read in your original proposal. > And there is a word for people with disapprove of this practice: Copyright > Troll Nic, Richard has a long history with this community of being one of our ambassadors, in every sense of the world. He's a prolific mapper, he's been a very effective community organizer, a project leader, conference organizer, and former Cloudmade Ambassador. Instead of going on the attack, give what he's saying a listen. Even if you don't agree, being openly hostile to someone with such a long history with the project doesn't make your any stronger. - Serge _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
