On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:51 PM, David Earl <[email protected]>wrote:
> But you are overlooking Database Copyright. It's not the individual > facts, but the way in which they are collated as a collection that is > copyrightable. So if you are taking the information off their map, you > are, in effect, ripping off their database. Are you talking about the sui generis rights for databases? Database Copyright (with capital D and C) is not very precise, especially not combined with phrases like "ripping off". > And yes, they do claim copyright over grid references, when they are > derived from their maps. See the letter they sent to licensees about > superimposing items geolocated from OS maps on top of Google maps recently. As far as I understood, they based this on contract law, not a license? Besides, trying to overstate your rights does not imply that you are right. - Gustav
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