Richard Weait writes: > Copyright is earned in a work regardless of the existence of a > copyright symbol on the work. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
That's the Berne Convention at work. Not every country has signed it. And at least in the U.S., you cannot copyright a fact of the world. The shape of a building and the walls inside it are not copyrightable. An image which depicts them might be, if it contains creative elements, but if you use the facts that it depicts, and do not redistribute the image itself, you are not infringing the work. -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
