On 24 July 2010 00:59, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 5:33 PM, andrzej zaborowski <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On 23 July 2010 22:14, Liz <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Richard Weait wrote: >> >> If you find planet on a bus you are not finding just a pile of ordered >> >> ones and zeros. It's on media of some type. You might sell the disk >> >> as is, but copying the data and selling it would be legally risky. A >> >> Reasonable Person[2] would understand that there could be copyright >> >> works included in the data on the disk. >> > >> > We've already discussed that this would have copyright on it, but any >> > licence >> > imposed under contract provisions is lost, because the finder did not >> > agree to >> > the licence. >> >> However, the end result is effectively the same: with no copyright >> statement, the default is "All rights reserved", so the only way the >> finder can do anything whatsoever with the work is go to www.osm.org >> and establish a contract. > > And what is it that's wrong with CC-BY-SA again?
Assuming copyright protects the data in that place, not much (maybe too general, some scenarios not covered). If it doesn't, then the person who left the data on the bus is responsible for breach of contract with OSMF instead of in breach of what.. community guidelines (i.e. legally done nothing wrong). Cheers _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
