On 18 June 2011 00:30, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 06/17/11 16:20, John Smith wrote: >> >> Patents don't apply here > > I am trying to make a general point about the scope of CC licenses, to which > the "patents" example is relevant. > > Do you or do you not agree, that if a picture describing a patent is made > available under CC-BY-SA (and NOT CC-BY-ND), one's ability to implement the > procedure described in the picture, and thereby create a derivative work of > the picture, would be limited?
There is 4 types of IP law (5 in the EU with the 5th being DB directive), contract, patent, copyright, trademarks. You can't apply patents laws against copyright and vice versa, so no you are wrong on this matter, or it's a very very poor example. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
