On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Tom Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/08/10 14:37, Anthony wrote: > >> By the way, if you know the history of copyright, you'll know that >> maps were one of the first two types of works which were protected. >> When copyright was invented, it protected books and maps. The idea >> that copyright does not cover maps is very strange when you consider >> that. > > A rendered map (which is all that existed at the time you are talking about) > of course can be copyright due to the creative nature of the cartography > making it an artistic work. > > A database of geodata is an entirely different matter.
And how would you define geodata? A collection of POIs maybe. Once you get into ways I don't see that's different from any other drawing, in digital form. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
