On 17 July 2010 22:04, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17 July 2010 21:57, Heiko Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote: >> Did I misunderstood the posting below because of not perfect english? > > I was thinking about a different email, however it's the same case but > has the wrong interpretation as to the scope. >
The grounds of the case was purely over if facts themselves could be copyrighted, the ruling was based on if individual facts within a database were covered by copyright, and as a result the database itself. However as soon as you add creative content it changes things, but from what I've been told, there won't be a final ruling on this till next year, in the meant time Telstra (owner of white/yellow pages) is going round trying to get this over turned. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
