[Legal-general] The elephant in the room

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Domingo, 9 de Noviembre de 2008, Gustav Foseid escribió:
> > Putting your GPS on the dashboard, following a road for 30 miles,
> > getting home, uploading the track, then faithfully tracing along it:
> > doesn't look much like original creative work to me.
>
> No, probably not creative, but again bordering on a database.

I know of mapping agencies that do believe that it's creative work.

> Another example: If a municipality assign street names, and keep a list of
> these names in a database, is this database protected?

Yes.

> And if it is, is this still a database when printed on a number of signs and 
> distributed in the municipality?

Yes.

> Would then a OSM surveyor extract a substantial part of 
> this database after surveying street names in the entire municipality?

Yes.


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Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>

No existe peor intolerancia que la de la razón.- Miguel de Unamuno.
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