[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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