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

[Nick Black]

On 2/26/07, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
> 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.

That is a good point Lars, the meeting with CC is probably goign to be
very EU and quite UK-centric. Perhaps people in other parts of the
world could check their local situations?

>
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