[OSM-legal-talk] New license status

[James Livingston]

On 28/09/2009, at 11:16 PM, Gustav Foseid wrote:
> Well... There is no copyright that expires after 15 years. Sui  
> generis database rights expire after 15 years, but copyright is  
> hardly very relevant for an OpenStreetMap database dump.

In Europe maybe - however there are countries where database do have  
inherent copyright separate from the copyright over their contents,  
for example in Australia. I think the copyright wouldn't expire for 70  
years here, which is definitely more than the 15 for European sui  
generis database rights.

I see the qualification that "substantial" is in terms of quality,  
quantity or a combination of both - but out of interest, is it  
supposed to mean basically what it means in terms of the underlying  
copyright/database rights?