I think there was brief discussion on talk-au last year. I noted that anyone could use a favourite search engine to search for the many articles about copyright in the yellow and white pages. You will find articles such as http://www.mondaq.com/australia/x/95894/Copyright/Copyright+in+Databases+No+Copyright+in+White+and+Yellow+Pages
The Federal Court of Australia ruled there was no copyright in the printed editions of the yellow pages and white pages. (but I think there may still be copyright in the webpages - not sure). The decision was appealed and the Full Bench of the Federal Court upheld the previous decision. An appeal to the High Court has been refused (http://simpsons.com.au/telstra-to-bend-the-ear-of-commonwealth-attorney-general-over-copyright/ ) I think that effectively places the yellow pages and white pages printed editions in the public domain and the information can be used by anyone for any purpose. However another mapper counselled against using the data in OSM in case there were other legal issues. Unless there have been subsequent developments, the court decision might also raise questions about OSM's assertion of its database copyright under Australian law. On Sun, Jun 25, 2017, at 06:58 PM, Warin wrote: > Hi > > Just noticed the online white pages is using OSM ! Maybe I'm behind the > times.. :) > > https://www.whitepages.com.au/nsw-ambulance-10025780/ambulance-bookings-10025771B > > > Would Sensis now consider releasing their data freely to OSM ... humm? > > Maybe the Sensis data is also copyright elsewhere too. > > > I just added Alburn Ambo station too... > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
