For Berne counties, I think it technically depends on where the "infringement" takes place, whatever that would mean in this scenario, but the idea that Google would go to another country to spend $$$ to sue over this one line is preposterous to me. Let me put it this way: I would be comfortable taking the "risk" myself.
On Sun, Apr 14, 2019, 10:03 AM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > > On 14. Apr 2019, at 09:47, Kathleen Lu via talk <talk@openstreetmap.org> > wrote: > > > > My opinion as a copyright lawyer is that there is nothing copyrightable > in the single line that consists of the proposed route, under US law. > > Of course others are free to disagree. > > > are you sure that US law applies when someone takes these maps and adds > the contained information into OpenStreetMap? > Is there a general agreement whose law applies, does it depend on where > the mapper is located while mapping? Does it depend on where you get sued? > (e.g. Google could sue in the US but also for example in Ireland through > child companies). > > > Cheers, Martin
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