[Legal-general] The elephant in the room

[Nic Roets]

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Gustav Foseid <gustavf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Another example: If a municipality assign street names, and keep a list of
> these names in a database, is this database protected? And if it is, is this

Can't they claim outright copyright on streets younger than 50 years ?
If they paid someone to come up with the names ? And if they make
minute changes (easter eggs) to the list before they put up the name
boards, they'll have strong legal grounds when protecting the original
list.

> still a database when printed on a number of signs and distributed in the
> municipality? Would then a OSM surveyor extract a substantial part of this
> database after surveying street names in the entire municipality?

Database rights or copyright over things on public display ?