David Earl wrote: > Why does pressing the keys make any > difference whatsoever? The original contributor doesn't own the > copyright in the name, only their contribution, and by marking it > odbl clean I'm making an alternative contribution which asserts > the source is now legitimate.
I think you're both right. This is "sweat of the brow" in a nutshell. The act of making the contribution is protected, not just the contribution. It's an utterly braindead law, yes, and for once the UK would be much better off if it followed the practice of our cousins across the pond... but it is, nonetheless, the law. So: If you spend time reviewing a fact expressed in the database; confirm that the fact is correct and not original; and therefore tag it odbl=clean; I think that is sufficient sweat-of-the-brow for the "IP" to reside with you. Keyboard-mashing per se is not a distinct concept in the law, sweat-of-the-brow is, and if the sweat is expended on reviewing and retaining the data (and, as an inevitably corollary, deleting data for which you can find no corroborating evidence)... then that works. Those with an eye to mischief may like to ponder how one might code (i.e. sweat-of-the-brow) and run a bot which reviewed streetnames and other attributes against OS OpenData, and tagged them odbl=clean if they were found fitting. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/License-change-anonymous-edits-tp7150109p7172678.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
