Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Ordnance data

2008-02-20 Thread rob
Quoting Iván Sánchez Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If the database law attaches, you're using a bad law - one that may well be repealed, and has been rebuked even by the EC itself. Pardon me? When has such a thing taken place? The EU's report on the effectiveness of the Database Right found

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Ordnance data

2008-02-20 Thread SteveC
On 20 Feb 2008, at 03:05, John Wilbanks wrote: *Maps* may indeed be copyrighted. The data that underlies those maps is probably in the public domain... And you believe NavTeq and TeleAtlas are also built on a house of cards? Are the Nokia and TomTom due diligence people really that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Deconstructing the loss of data claim

2008-02-20 Thread 80n
On Feb 19, 2008 11:54 PM, John Wilbanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone. My name is John Wilbanks. I am the VP for Science Commons at Creative Commons, and I'm the one who wrote the Protocol for Implementing Open Access to Data. I've been lurking here for a couple of weeks. I don't like

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Deconstructing the loss of data claim

2008-02-20 Thread Gervase Markham
A Morris wrote: Think of it more as watermarking One could also make a case for their being different levels of severity of watermark. A completely fictitious street is one thing; a fictitious wayside cross is another. Although I suppose, for the watermark to be effective, you would need to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Deconstructing the loss of data claim

2008-02-20 Thread Gervase Markham
A Morris wrote: Think of it more as watermarking One could also make a case for their being different levels of severity of watermark. A completely fictitious street is one thing; a fictitious wayside cross is another. Although I suppose, for the watermark to be effective, you would need to