<div dir="ltr"><div>Regarding: "No license needed for facts"
</div><div>A reminder that the <i>collection </i>of facts is part of it's presentation, and can have copyright protection. You'd be creating a derivative work. This is what protects recipe books, maps, and dictionaries. I'm not a lawyer.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 7:37 AM Russell Nelson <<a href="mailto:nelson@crynwr.com">nelson@crynwr.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 7/16/20 5:26 AM, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-us wrote:<br>
> On the other hand, it may be unoriginal database... Still, the <br>
> preferred version is to have an explicit<br>
> license.<br>
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I tried getting some acknowledgement from New York State GIS that their <br>
data was not copyrighted or not copyrightable back when I imported the <br>
NYSDEC lands shapefile. The most I could get out of them was that they <br>
don't claim a copyright. I had saved that email thread on my Cloudmade <br>
laptop. After I got laid off and had to send the laptop back, I didn't <br>
think to save that email.<br>
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As you say, it's just a listing of facts about the world. At most the <br>
presentation of them is copyrightable, but as Skyler noted, he's <br>
changing the presentation.<br>
<br>
No license needed for facts.<br>
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