To: Lance Burger
Cc: brendan barrett; Grant Slater; Openstreetmap ZA
Subject: Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] State Copyright on Spatial Information Products
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Lance Burgerlance.bur...@mweb.co.za
wrote:
Using a copyrighted work as such is not an infringement
To: Nic Roets
Cc: Openstreetmap ZA
Subject: Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] State Copyright on Spatial Information Products
Agreed, we want to keep whiter than white, which is why we've been
going to great lengths to get permission from gov (SG, CD, SITA)...
even though the municipalities (and even some private
OSM ZA,
A few of us have been trying to get government data to include in OSM...
While the Public Access to Information Act allows us to get the data
relatively easily it does not answer the question of copyright and usage
terms...
I recently found the following draft(?) policy which might be
Sent: 12 June 2009 01:20 PM
To: Grant Slater
Cc: Openstreetmap ZA
Subject: Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] State Copyright on Spatial Information Products
I've seen those links, and you would think that the law is on our
side. From what I understand, we still require permission to
distribute the information
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Lance Burgerlance.bur...@mweb.co.za wrote:
I had a look at the Spatial Data Infrastructure Act 54 of 2003 (now an Act,
no longer a bill as referred to in the draft policy mention by Grant).
There is nothing in that SDI Act that indicates that authorizes one to
an adaptation of the work are infringements
in terms of section 7.
Lance Burger
-Original Message-
From: Bernd Jendrissek [mailto:bernd.jendris...@gmail.com]
Sent: 12 June 2009 03:51 PM
To: Lance Burger
Cc: brendan barrett; Grant Slater; Openstreetmap ZA
Subject: Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] State
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Lance Burgerlance.bur...@mweb.co.za wrote:
Using a copyrighted work as such is not an infringement (it is not an
infringement to read a book which is subject to copyright), but both
reproducing the work and making an adaptation of the work are infringements
in
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Bernd Jendrissek
bernd.jendris...@gmail.com wrote:
The or parts thereof also leaves me thinking that using includes
making derivative works. The sentence or two describing the required
acknowledgement of State Copyright would also be moot if this was just
a
Agreed, we want to keep whiter than white, which is why we've been
going to great lengths to get permission from gov (SG, CD, SITA)...
even though the municipalities (and even some private mapping
companies - in Stellies and Mpumalanga) are literally throwing data at
us. I've got CD's and emailed
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