On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote:
Anthony wrote:
(By the way, to answer Frederick more directly, the laws surrounding
joint
authorship are *not* relatively universal. In the UK, joint authorship
works
in almost exactly the *opposite* way. In order to
I asked two attorneys in the USA to look into the question of whether the OSM
map data falls under copyright. Please see earlier messages in this thread for
details of how the lawyers were chosen and the question asked.
They produced a written report which they asked me not to distribute
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote:
I asked two attorneys in the USA to look into the question of whether the
OSM
map data falls under copyright. Please see earlier messages in this
thread for
details of how the lawyers were chosen and the question asked.
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:30 PM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote:
* Tracing from maps, and from GPS tracks, is most likely copyrightable.
Although the GPS tracks are unlikely to be copyrightable.
Oops, I meant to say:
* Tracing from imagery, and from GPS tracks, is most likely copyrightable.
Hi,
On 12/08/2011 02:20 PM, Ed Avis wrote:
They produced a written report
I am intrigued by the joint authorship concept. If that was true
(relatively) universally, then we could perhaps use that to force even
those who haven't agreed to the license change to allow us (their
co-authors) to
Am 08.12.2011 15:46, schrieb Frederik Ramm:
Hi,
On 12/08/2011 02:20 PM, Ed Avis wrote:
They produced a written report
I am intrigued by the joint authorship concept. If that was true
(relatively) universally, then we could perhaps use that to force even
those who haven't agreed to the
Simon Poole simon@... writes:
In summary I don't quite see how the report changes anything, summarized
it states:
a) maps are copyrightable in the US (not that we didn't know that)
b) online maps are copyrightable in the US (we assumed that too)
c) you could make a case that the underlying data