On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Xan <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the key is how use the google data: > > - if you use google data for moving to the place you want and then get > GPS data (or other own data) and map this place from this data, > everything is ok > - if you use the google data for mapping the place, then you make a > derivative work of google data. > > I think it's so simple.
Has the concept of a "derivative work", particularly in the case of maps, ever been tested in court? IMHO, OSM tends to take an overly cautious approach here. Surely a work can be "informed by" another work without being "derived from" it. Take the example of a Wikipedia article (a text work) written after reading various other articles. It's not a "derivative work". Presumably something similar applies here. Very happy to be contradicted... Steve _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
