Quoting Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Unmodified PD data can easily be restricted. > > If I have PD data on my server and offer it to the world, nobody in > the world can restrict that. This data is PD and will always remain > PD, and to say otherwise is just scaremongering.
Anybody can take that data and provide it to third parties with restrictions added. PD data can be placed in an obfuscated format or wrapper (Adobe's earliest eBooks did this), or made part of a copyrighted collective work (clip art and classic book reprint companies do this all the time). The obvious objection that those third parties can just get the data from the original server assumes too many imponderables. It is a "let them eat cake" response. It doesn't matter that the data was available five years ago in a format they can't read on a server that they didn't know the address of when they have that data restricted on a device (or in a physical work) that needs modifying now. There are many reasons why someone might wish to deny the freedoms they have enjoyed to downstream users. GPS data sets for in-car devices are selling well at the moment for example. - Rob. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk
