On 09/09/11 15:57, Ed Avis wrote: > > In the US, the two lawyers found that the OSM map data is > copyrightable. They mentioned the explicit inclusion of maps in > copyright law
But geodata is not a map, and the copyright on the database is not the copyright on its contents. > My barrister in the UK fist considered the situation under the > Copyright Act 1911. The 1911 act has long since been repealed in the UK, though. > - That's the summary, as I best translate it from my notes of the two > phone calls. Thank you for going to all the trouble of doing this and sharing the results publicly. - Rob. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
