On May 6, 2009, at 1:14 AM, Rob Reid wrote: >> > Excellent, so there is nothing to stop me tracing my entire town off > Google Imagery into osm, since all I would be doing is choosing points > off their aerial photograghs and they are not contributing in any > way to > me doing that?
WHERE do you guys get these weird ideas about copyright from? Do you think the garbage man has copyright interest in your OSM work because he's contributing to your efforts by taking out your trash? What about the company that built your computer? SURELY you could not edit OSM without their contribution. What about the ISP that carried the imagery to your computer? You can bet that THEY think they share copyright in your online works. How could you have produced them without your ISP, so your ISP owns everything you edit online. Copyright protects creativity (or sweat of the brow). It doesn't protect "contributions" to creativity. Think of the lawsuits if it did! Why, I'm contributing to your OSM efforts by clarifying copyright for you, so I would have a copyright interest in your OSM edits if your theory was correct. -- 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
