On 05/07/2011 10:51, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Tom Chance wrote:
So I suspect it's potentially breaching copyright, and a matter of
judgement as to whether it's worth the risk. For example, if you
were copying in data from a commercial web site whose business
model was based around that data
Richard Fairhurst richard@... writes:
...but when you get to every OSM-GB contributor checking five addresses,
yes, it probably is. And we don't have any way of saying ok, we've taken
enough from tesco.com.
If anyone is concerned about scraping websites we could always contact the
firms to
On 4 July 2011 14:05, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote:
On 04/07/2011 12:48, Donald Noble wrote:
Sorry if this has been covered before, but I was just wondering what
the copyright position is with checking details of, say a church or a
shop, on their website and then adding those
Tom Chance wrote:
So I suspect it's potentially breaching copyright, and a matter of
judgement as to whether it's worth the risk. For example, if you
were copying in data from a commercial web site whose business
model was based around that data (like a listing of pubs) you
might get
My rule of thumb is that getting facts from an individual website for a cafe
or shop or church is fine, but do not copy from online directories or the
databases maintained by search engines. If adding details from a website I will
usually note it in the 'source' or 'uri' tags, or in the changeset
David Earl wrote:
Even then, to infringe database copyright under UK law you would have to
copy a substantial part of the database. Checking or obtaining a few
names against such a list isn't database copyright infringement
Oh, absolutely. The thing I've always been anxious about, though, is
On 05/07/2011 11:26, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
David Earl wrote:
Even then, to infringe database copyright under UK law you would have to
copy a substantial part of the database. Checking or obtaining a few
names against such a list isn't database copyright infringement
Oh, absolutely. The
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:58 AM, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote:
To take a different example, the Royal Mail (still) claims database
copyright over the PAF (postcode address file) database. Would crowd
sourcing the address vs postcode data by each individual putting in their
own
On 05/07/2011 12:28, Nick Austin wrote:
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:58 AM, David Earlda...@frankieandshadow.com wrote:
To take a different example, the Royal Mail (still) claims database
copyright over the PAF (postcode address file) database. Would crowd
sourcing the address vs postcode data
On 04/07/2011 12:48, Donald Noble wrote:
Sorry if this has been covered before, but I was just wondering what
the copyright position is with checking details of, say a church or a
shop, on their website and then adding those details to OSM?
I would have thought that this was fair use of the
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