John Smith wrote: > 2010/1/5 Richard Colless <[email protected]>: >> The issue of copying names from a street directory is very similar. The >> publishers of the directory hold copyright over the graphic layout of the >> map, but they cannot hold copyright over the street names themselves. Those > > That's assuming what they printed is correct, mapping companies have > lots of errors in their maps, some errors are intentional to catch > copyright infringements.
I've been playing it safe to date, and not entering any road names from maps unless I get agreement between the maps of companies with different ownership. > Only councils (or developers or the street signs) would actually have > original authoritative information on the street names. > >> names are in the public domain. If you look up a street name in the >> directory, then you now know that name. If you then use it to name a street > > The Telstra case of their copyright on white pages here would be > relevant, and to a lesser extent from what I understand the IceTV > ruling, however unless you are willing to personally fund an OSM > defence fund why risk everyone else's work over it? I missed that Telstra case. Do you have a reference to a good summary? John _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
