Hi, the current state of discussion/analysis is that a license like ODL would offer sound legal protection only where database law exists (e.g. in Europe), while for other jurisdictions (e.g. the US) we'd have to rely on the contractual aspect which may be hard because the contract doesn't bind third parties to whom the data might be passed. How hard exactly it is seems to be a bit murky at the moment.
In this post, I want to focus solely on Europe, i.e. places where database law exists. As far as I understand, database law is a kind of copyright for data collections, and it means that if you extract a significant amount of data from a database you need permission from the creator of said database. The ODL would be styled such that this permission is granted automatically, provided that the user complies with the license (i.e. the attribution and share-alike stuff). What I'm interested in now is the extraction of a "not significant" amount of data. I understand that "significant" is not really defined but let's assume I would extract the map data for a little village, say 2000 nodes and 200 ways, or about 0.1% of the data we have - surely not "significant". What would be the legal situation? The data is not copyrightable, and its extraction does not fall unter database law. Would we, in spite of that, try to bind the user to ODL restrictions (attribution/share- alike) by contract? And would the same problems that we're talking about for non-European jurisdictions then apply here as well (i.e. I extract the data and breach the contract, publish it, another guy uses it)? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00.09' E008°23.33' _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk