[OSM-legal-talk] INANAL - But these guys are

Rob Myers rob at robmyers.org
Mon Feb 26 18:12:10 GMT 2007


Kristian Thy wrote:

> For an interesting perspective on this, have a look at
> http://www.gpsdrawing.com/. There's no doubt in my mind that what these
> people are doing is IP - under Danish law at least.

If you use a pencil to write a poem, the results are copyrighted.

If you use a pencil to write a shopping list, the results are not 
copyrighted.

Media are not copyrightable, uses of media are copyrightable.

So GPS drawings may be different from GPS traces for everyday activity 
and/or from GPS traces from mapping projects.

IANAL, TINLA.

- Rob.




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