As far as I know Ordnance Survey's theory of derived data has never been tested in court. However there's an upcoming High Court decision (arising from a dispute between 77M Ltd and OS) that might shed some light.
On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 at 23:42, Edward Bainton <bainton....@gmail.com> wrote: The idea of asking a ranger to trace the boundary (on a printout of a > thoroughly detailed OSM, of course: better get to work...) is a great one. > iirc, the boundaries are all pretty major geographical features, so > hopefully fairly easy. But yes, Jez, what a faff. > > Out of interest, is OS's position on derived data clearly the correct one > legally speaking? I note the wiki talks in terms of OS 'claiming' IP in > the derived data, not that it actually *is* their IP, so I wondered. > > Obviously whether OS have over-egged or not it is a wholly different > question from whether, if they have, OSM would want to challenge them - I'm > asking from a theoretical pov only. > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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