Hi again,
Ralf Gerlich schrieb:
Jon Stockill schrieb:
Think again:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Copyright_Easter_Eggs
That's the interesting part of that German rouling: The court explicitly
considered the fact that the plaintiff included such easter eggs in its
maps and dismissed it as irrelevant. However, as it seems the legal
situation is clearly different in the UK, as the court ruling mentioned
in your link shows.
Or put differently: Even though the plaintiff was able to prove the
origin of the defendant's map by the easter eggs, that bought them
nothing, as the base data is not copyright protected and the easter eggs
won't count as "mental creation" to make it protected.
Again: IANAL, and this is my interpretation of the ruling.
Cheers,
Ralf
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