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

[Lars Aronsson]

Rob Myers wrote:

> > 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 shopping list, the results are not 
> copyrighted.

Under Danish copyright law, the shopping list, as being a catalog 
or table, is protected for 15 years after its first publication.  
Such catalog protection (then 10 years) was introduced in the 
copyright laws of Denmark, Sweden and Norway in the 1960s.  Later 
it has been extended to 15 years.  This was the main inspiration 
for the database protection introduced in the European Union at 
the end of the 1990s.

Just don't assume that your own country's copyright law is the 
same as everybody else's.


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
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