[OSM-legal-talk] Protection time of ODbL

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

James Livingston wrote:
> On 30/09/2009, at 7:36 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> Question is: 1. what about the contents themselves. Have we reached a
>> consensus that the contents of the database are themselves not  
>> protected
>> by copyright and do we explicitly say that we don't claim any  
>> copyright?
> 
> I don't think that a consensus on what we think matters when  
> discussing whether the contents of the database are protected by  
> copyright

Well if you say you don't claim any then for all intents and purposes it 
does not matter whether your jurisdiction says that you could claim 
copyright or that you couldn't.

Bye
Frederik