On 18 June 2011 00:50, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote: > > > Am 17.06.2011 16:39, schrieb andrzej zaborowski: > > ... >> >> 2. What happens if a person in country A with database rights >> publishes a tileset and licenses it under CC-By-SA to a person in >> country B without database rights? The second person is then as far >> as I can see not bound by database rights or a contract. Is that >> incorrect? >> > ... > > I'm sure that our legal experts will step in if this isn't correct :-). > > While in your example the person in country B can probably legally ignore > the terms of the ODBL (publisher in A however must include a notice pointing > to the ODBL and so on), it doesn't make a database generated from that > tileset "legal" in country A. Since at least most European countries (this > is very generalised) consider an Internet publication the same as a national > publication, any publisher of such a database would have to take precautions > to block access in the EU (and countries with similar database protection > regulations) or risk getting in to trouble.
This could be hard, especially since OSM-F isn't complying with Chinese law, so why would others comply with EU law unless they were in the EU? _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
