Regarding: "No license needed for facts" A reminder that the *collection *of facts is part of it's presentation, and can have copyright protection. You'd be creating a derivative work. This is what protects recipe books, maps, and dictionaries. I'm not a lawyer.
On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 7:37 AM Russell Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/16/20 5:26 AM, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-us wrote: > > On the other hand, it may be unoriginal database... Still, the > > preferred version is to have an explicit > > license. > > I tried getting some acknowledgement from New York State GIS that their > data was not copyrighted or not copyrightable back when I imported the > NYSDEC lands shapefile. The most I could get out of them was that they > don't claim a copyright. I had saved that email thread on my Cloudmade > laptop. After I got laid off and had to send the laptop back, I didn't > think to save that email. > > As you say, it's just a listing of facts about the world. At most the > presentation of them is copyrightable, but as Skyler noted, he's > changing the presentation. > > No license needed for facts. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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