[OSM-legal-talk] Ordnance data

[rob at robmyers.org]

Quoting Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivansanchez at escomposlinux.org>:

>> If the database law attaches, you're using a bad law - one that may well
>> be repealed, and has been rebuked even by the EC itself.
>
> Pardon me? When has such a thing taken place?

The EU's report on the effectiveness of the Database Right found  
almost no positive effects:

http://drn.okfn.org/node/91

Bad law can be used to neutralise itself. But I am wary of recreating  
it where it doesn't apply.

The interesting part of John's scenario isn't that DB right doesn't  
apply in CC's domestic market but what happens when someone breaks the  
contract there. If I have read this correctly there is no way of  
getting downstream recipients to respect the contract once a *single*  
person breaks it.

- Rob.