[Legal-general] The elephant in the room

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Domingo, 9 de Noviembre de 2008, Gustav Foseid escribió:
> > > Would then a OSM surveyor extract a substantial part of
> > > this database after surveying street names in the entire municipality?
> >
> > Yes.
>
> In whioch case, there is not a single street name added legally to OSM.
> There has to be a flaw in that argument?

Nope.

If there is a list of street names printed on paper and posted wherever, and a 
OSM surveyor copies some of them, that's an "extraction" of a database 
(depending on your jurisdiction).

At least, in Spain, there has been one precedent of the application of the 
database directive related to extraction of a non-electronic database (i.e. a 
list on stuff in a book).

So, while the street names might not have copyright over them, the act of 
extracting the names from a list is indeed illegal (depending if the township 
whishes to push for charges, that is).


Cheers,
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