On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:48 AM, John Smith <[email protected]> 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.
Just to reinforce this point, a case concluded today asserted that Telstra/Sensis no longer have copyright for the Yellow and White Pages Databases specifically in light of IceTV. There had been a previous case involving those datasets concerning a company called Desktop Marketing Systems (no prizes for guessing why they would like to rip off phone books) that had subsisted for several years with the view that copying the whole phonebook (even when presented in a different form) was copyright infringement. Analysis: http://ipwars.com/2010/02/10/no-copyright-in-telephone-directories-downunder/ Ruling: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/FCA/2010/44.html _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
