El Lunes, 4 de Febrero de 2008, Gervase Markham escribió: > My question is this: if the database as a whole is covered by a SA > provision, but the individual facts are equivalent to PD, how can the > law prevent a nefarious person splitting the database into lots of > individual facts by e.g. putting each on a separate web page, then > trawling the pages to reassemble their own database of all the facts, > which they then own? It may have a different schema, but basically all > the data would be there.
The law can't prevent that. But OSM (or the OSMF) could sue afterwards. Basically, pulling every piece of data individually and putting it togheter again is a transformation of the OSM DB, AFAIK. This is when the definition of "substantial" in the law kicks in. If they managed to get a hold on a substantial quantity of data by making lots of non-substantial queries, they'll have a problem. Disclaimer: IANAL, YMMV. Or, better said, "Your Jurisdiction May Vary". Cheers, -- ---------------------------------- Iván Sánchez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brújula: señórula que va montádula en una escóbula.
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
_______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk
