[OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

[Emilie Laffray]

On 5 August 2010 14:19, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:

>
> What makes you think that contractual element will offer any
> "protection" in Australia?  Has an Australian court case upheld the
> enforcement of contractual restriction on people who didn't even know
> the contract existed?
>
> And who told you that OSM is a collection of unoriginal facts?  That
> part of the argument is rather obviously untrue.  OSM is a collection
> of unoriginal facts about as much as Wikipedia is.  Which is to say,
> sure, it *contains* a collection of unoriginal facts, but it expresses
> those facts in a unique way.
>
>
<troll>Hum, I think that quite a few things on Wikipedia can be considered
creative in the first place allowing for copyrights to kick in. </troll>
Hum, in Wikipedia, it is not the facts that is protected but the writing. In
OSM, we are talking about a physical representation of those facts namely
their geometries, which is quite different.

Emilie Laffray
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