[OSM-legal-talk] Derived work fun

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Nick Black wrote:
> I saw this.  It doesn't seem to square with things that Ed has
> suggested before.  At SOTM08 he said that placing a pin on the map
> made it a derived work and was very unclear about the ownership.

I guess the same soft rule applies as it does to mapping from aerial 
imagery (Ed's concept from SOTM08): If you have some sort of personal 
connection to what you're mapping then it's ok, it only becomes a 
problem if you do it wholesale. Maybe this is a similar soft distinction 
to our talking about "substantial extracts" in the proposed new license.

Interesting bit is that, ignoring the map for a moment, Ed seems to have 
used Google geocoding: "I created it my looking up the locations of 
recycling centres run by my local council" - unlikely that the council 
had lat/lon on their web site. Which is funny because at least one 
geodata provider (TeleAtlas) takes the stance that if someone creates a 
coordinate list of all the branches of his coffee chain using TeleAtlas 
geocoding, the list is a TeleAtlas derived product...

Bye
Frederik