On Sunday 13 March 2016, Tobias Wendorff wrote: > > I don't know, if this thematic has already been discussed on this > list, but European Court of Justice (ECJ) has confirmed the > classification as a database for (printed) topographic maps (see EuZW > 2015, 955). Yet the commentaries can't foresee the consequences, but > publishers are happy to see a stronger proction of their maps and > data.
I don't think there has ever been any serious doubt that printed maps can be databases. I also don't see any immediate consequences of this for the ODbL and OSM coming from that. It has long been a widely accepted notion that if you use an ODbL produced work as a database, i.e. you extract semantic information from it and use it in a database-like way, you are subject to the derivative/collective database regulations of the ODbL, meaning you cannot whitewash ODbL data from share-alike by generating a produced work and reverse engineering data from it again. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
