[OSM-legal-talk] Houses of cards

[Stephen Gower]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:34:59PM +0000, SteveC wrote:
> On 20 Feb 2008, at 20:23, Rob Myers wrote:
> >
> > But I think that DB right won't apply outside of the EU,
> > copyright won't apply anywhere unless they are doing something
> > interesting that we should find out about, and contract law is of
> > more use for corporations who can sue for damages than for
> > community projects who can't restore copyleft even if they do
> > sue.
> 
> THAT. IS. THE. WHOLE. POINT.  :)
> 
> It's based on those three things so that if one fails (perhaps just in  
> your jurisdiction) then the other two can hold.

  Isn't the point that in some (fairly major) jurisdictions it is
  likely all three will fail?
  
  s (genuinely trying to understand)