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

[Kari Pihkala]

Oh, I'm sorry. My intention wasn't to cause upset. Looks like I don't
actually understand licenses or copyrights so well. I'll be more careful in
the future.

 - Kari

2008/11/20 Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>

> 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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