On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:00 AM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you already know a fact and use street view to confirm it, I can't > see how this can be copying since it's something you already know > about some place, nothing has been derived.
Perhaps a lawyer would argue that if you need to/choose to "confirm" something, you did not, in fact, already "know" it. > On the other hand if you are pulling unknown information this could be > considered copying, but since it's also a fact not a collection of > information this is where proper legal advice is needed, rather than > geek opinions which have no basis in law. I'm going to take your own advice and stop conjecturing. I thought Richard's contribution was interesting though, and obviously does have a basis in law (http://www.systemed.net/blog/?p=100). _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
