On what basis do they claim ownership of the routes, exactly? As I
understand it, many of these routes link up lots of little trails that
had been around for decades. How did copyright get transferred from
the people who created the trails to the FFRP? Or do they claim
ownership only over new
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:11 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
Are they aware that all the data has been created independently, by
surveying the trail - not by actually copying their data?
I think you mix two things : the physical trails, paths which are not
copyrighted and not
-Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: -
To: Licensing and other legal discussions. legal-talk@openstreetmap.org
From: Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com
Date: 22/02/2013 03:12AM
Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Question about copyrighted hiking routes in
France
On Thu, Feb 21,
Second issue : it is maybe a more specific French issue here because
the routes themselves can be copyrighted when they are considered as
original work. A famous case confirmed this with the IGN (publishing
the FFRP maps) sueing a guidebook editor [5] and confirmed by the
highest court in
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Olov McKie o...@mckie.se wrote:
I work for a library where we are building a new version of an application to
handle all sort of collections, for example books, letters, images, music
sheets, etc. The application will store metadata and digitalized versions
Eric Sibert wrote:
They established a route that for instance allows to from city A
to city B but not with the short way. Instead, it is going left and
right to visit points of interest, alpine hutch and so on. They
claim that such a work is an original work.
Yes, I can see that. I've
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Nick Whitelegg
nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote:
More philosophically the idea of someone claiming copyright on walking
routes seems completely at odds with the nature of countryside walking,
which to my mind has similar free and open values to open source
Hej Erik!
Would you please consider reading my mail one more time, and clarify your
answers, because I do not understand what you are trying to say.
No where in my mail did I say anything about using Google maps or their API,
yet for the two usecases you have answered about are you talking
Hi Alex,
You might want to clarify because your email is a bit confusing. My
understanding is you are saying I would like it to be this way, but
at the moment it is not. Correct?
Yes it is important to clarify the share alike clause, but I think
also important not to confuse people asking how
