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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>16 Jul 2020, 16:33 by rory@technomancy.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>On 16/07/2020 13:35, Russell Nelson wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>As you say, it's just a listing of facts about the world. At most the presentation of them is copyrightable, but as Skyler noted, he's changing the presentation.<br></div><div><br></div><div>No license needed for facts.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Remember, that might the law in the USA, but not in the whole world, including the UK, where (lots of) the OSM servers & legal body is based, which can have the “sweat of the brow” doctrine, rather than the higher “creativity” requirement. In addition, many countries (incl. EU & UK) have “sui generis database rights”, which give copyright like protections to collections of facts. OSM uses that legal protection.</div></blockquote><div><div>I am not a lawyer, but I am pretty sure<br></div><div>that it is not relevant to the data published<br></div><div>by New York State (that was produced <br></div><div>in US jurisdiction).<br></div></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Regardless, OSM is not a forum to explore the grey areas of international copyright law. If we're not sure, we don't use it! 🙂<br></div></blockquote><div>+1, but hopefully with some research we<br></div><div>may becone sure what is the legal situation</div> </body>
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