[OSM-legal-talk] Political Change

[Liz]

On Sun, 11 May 2008, Jeffrey Martin wrote:
> I just read through
> http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/FCAFC/2008/71.html
>
> In 128 the appellate court is saying that they did not copy facts, but
> instead they copied
> the guide created by Nine, because the aggregatators had pretty much copied
> the guide created by nine.
>
> In 123 Ice is saying that because the aggregators had recompiled the
> information that
> what Ice took was individual facts free of copyright.
>
> Is this the issue you want addressed in your new law?

yes, if that was the state of the law, that collecting individual facts into a 
new database was Ok with the law, that would see OSM data secure where it has 
been collected in accordance with the existing rules.