On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:21 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 7 August 2010 03:14, SteveC <st...@asklater.com> wrote: > > If they have several orders of magnitude more money then probably the > cost/benefit tradeoff would suggest throwing out the data is the better > option. > > Even wikipedia doesn't take that attitude, they're currently being > threatened by the FBI over a SVG image. > > That's different because the FBI is quite obviously wrong. There is a law that says they are wrong. Almost any complaint that someone might bring against OSM would be a brand spanking new, precedent-less, law-less (there aren't clear laws about data rights) suit. We don't want to be groundbreaking when it comes to data copyright court cases, I don't think.
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