On May 5, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > > Russ Nelson wrote: >> Fine enough, and who sweated hardest to click in a particular point >> on a Google Map? Google? Or the Wikipedia editor[...]? > > Sweat-of-the-brow doesn't mean that. It doesn't mean that "A did > some work, > but B did more, so B owns the copyright". _Both_ A and B own some > copyright.
What work or creativity did Google do towards the existence of that particular point? Given the coordinates of a particular point, how would Google take those numbers into court and say "Your honour, those numbers belong to us." Particularly when Google had no idea that those numbers existed before they were published in Wikipedia. Can you conceive of ANY legal system which would allow someone to claim copyright protection on 14 digits that they weren't aware of until they were published by someone else? With a straight face? No pulling my leg now, this is a serious conversation. To think that Google has ANY copyright ownership of points chosen off their aerial photographs simply boggles the mind. That would be like me taking a photograph of something (which is clearly a copyrightable work), you choosing to say something about a particular point 5.3785 inches from the bottom and 7.3992 inches from the left, and me claiming that 5.3785, 7.3992 infringes my copyright. I'm like WTF??? -- Russ Nelson - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson [email protected] - Twitter: Russ_OSM - http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
