En/na Steve Bennett ha escrit: > 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 > >
It was only my opinion. I don't know what are the legal aspects of that. Actually, all was preceding by another work and almost every work is "informed from", "based on" or "referenced by" another work. Original works with no relations of other works are rare.... But the frontier between "informed by" and "derived from" is fuzzy I think.... at least in the time we live (the savage capitalism ;-)) Cheers, Xan _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
