On 28/09/2009, at 11:16 PM, Gustav Foseid wrote: > Well... There is no copyright that expires after 15 years. Sui > generis database rights expire after 15 years, but copyright is > hardly very relevant for an OpenStreetMap database dump.
In Europe maybe - however there are countries where database do have inherent copyright separate from the copyright over their contents, for example in Australia. I think the copyright wouldn't expire for 70 years here, which is definitely more than the 15 for European sui generis database rights. I see the qualification that "substantial" is in terms of quality, quantity or a combination of both - but out of interest, is it supposed to mean basically what it means in terms of the underlying copyright/database rights? _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
