2009/10/7 Matthew Somerville <[email protected]>: > Simon Roe wrote: >> How about sites like planning alerts put a map on the sign up page >> asking for the users postcode. They have to put a pin in the map >> where they are, and enter their postcode. > > If this were e.g. a Google map, then the postcode's location would be > derived from the map, and thus under the same copyright as the map, I > believe. OpenStreetMap would have problems in areas where there isn't > accurate/any coverage.
If I assign latitude and longitude to postcodes by using a map in which copyright subsists (but which does not have those postcodes) then, unless I am copying some element of the map in so doing (which is unlikely with users pointing and clicking) I very much doubt that the copyright could somehow attach to the postcode database I then generated. Not least because it is unlikely that copyright could attach to it. There's a lot of loose talk and paranoia about this sort of thing. OSM-legal-talk is replete with it. Using a work in which there is copyright to generate another work is not necessarily an infringement of the original work, as Michael Baigent found out. -- Francis Davey _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
