On 2011-07-06 22:17, John Smith wrote:
Are you planning to try and replace all my work one way at a time like this?
No, I just wanted to show you that you can't really tell if someone
retraces a removed way by looking at an aerial imagery, by looking at
the current OSM map or by just moving randomly some nodes.
IMHO that's a very weak protection for a cc-by-sa map.
Which is of course the real issue, copyright does exist on the
content, and assumptions have to be made about what is likely to have
happened.
BTW I've just found some high court decisions which clearly state that a
map (and its content) isn't protected by copyright automatically here in
Austria. You have to prove individual creativity. Just reproducing
geographical facts like the course of a street or a river is not enough:
http://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/Justiz/JJR_19920114_OGH0002_0040OB00125_9100000_001/JJR_19920114_OGH0002_0040OB00125_9100000_001.html
Unofficial Translation: "Reproducing of geographical facts which one
gets by surveying (for example the course of a mountain range, a river
or a street or the location of a locality) in a map isn't protected by
copyright (Urheberrecht)"
Bye, Andreas
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