[josm-dev] The Golden Rules

[Nicolás Alvarez]

2013/8/24 Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com>:
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Nicolás Alvarez
> <nicolas.alvarez at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2013/8/24 Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com>:
>> > Is combining all the clues above (including clues left presumably by
>> > local
>> > mappers), plus Google searches,  Knowledge?
>>
>> I've been told that "plus Google searches" gets you in licensing
>> trouble. Not because of Google, of course, but because of the sites
>> you find.
>
>
> Copying from Google Map, or any other map: that's trouble.
> Looking up a company or venue website prior to mapping it?  Fair game.
> Copyrights don't cover facts, they cover expression.

Looking up a company and finding it in a large "business listing"
website, and taking data from there, gets us trouble with database
rights (which is a completely different thing than copyright). As I
understand it, going to the company's own website should be fine.

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Nicolás