On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 10:48 +1000, John Smith wrote: > On 9 February 2010 10:37, David Murn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thats probably a good thing. 'skills' also includes knowing how the OSM > > licence works, and clicking on the 'terms of use' link on the page you > > linked... > > Except copyright law in Australia since the IceTV ruling is unlikely > to cover simple databases of fact.
Oh, thanks for that. I didnt realise that OSM had moved to Australia, and was now governed by Australian law. If there were any court rulings that changed our right to access/use other peoples content, theres a lot better things to import than woolworths locations, say for example copyrighted street centrelines. Also what is this 'IceTV ruling'? I provide you with an opinion and details of why its so, you just say 'since XYZ ruling'. What if theyve put an easter-egg into that 'database of fact'? Suddenly they can prove you took their entire dataset. Another concern I have, is that if the law works one way, whats to stop someone deriving a list of info from OSM, then adding it to their project (google map-maker for example), then claiming that its okay because "IceTV" says so. David _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
