[Legal-general] Which approach would be the best to import data into PD database?

[Richard Fairhurst]

Kari Pihkala wrote:

> Even if someone says that his data is in PD, it doesn't mean  
> anything once uploaded to openstreetmap.org. I could as well claim  
> that my data is in GPL or CC-BY-SA-non-commercial. It doesn't change  
> the license of the data sent to the server. I wonder if all these  
> people[1] have realised that.

Hogwash.

Firstly, who supposedly owns these additional rights over and above  
the individual contributions (which are (c) you, the contributor - no- 
one disputes that [1]) which would prevent you from extracting and  
reusing your own unaltered, untransformed [2] data?

Secondly, even supposing such a person existed - which they don't -  
are they ever going to successfully sue to prevent you using your own  
unaltered data? Come on, think. The case would be laughed out of court.

As the first of "all these people" I know quite well what I'm doing,  
thank you, and vague threats about "all your data are belong to us"  
don't really impress me too much.

cheers
Richard

[1] Insofar as any copyright protection (or neighbouring rights)  
applies anyway.
[2] Well, "unaltered" except for "assigned a sequential ID by the  
server". I think you'd have a hard time proving that a sequential ID  
merited any form of copyright protection. Unless someone patented  
ordinal numbers while I wasn't looking.
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