[OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

[Anthony]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> On 05/08/10 14:37, Anthony wrote:
>
>> By the way, if you know the history of copyright, you'll know that
>> maps were one of the first two types of works which were protected.
>> When copyright was invented, it protected books and maps.  The idea
>> that copyright does not cover maps is very strange when you consider
>> that.
>
> A rendered map (which is all that existed at the time you are talking about)
> of course can be copyright due to the creative nature of the cartography
> making it an artistic work.
>
> A database of geodata is an entirely different matter.

And how would you define geodata?  A collection of POIs maybe.  Once
you get into ways I don't see that's different from any other drawing,
in digital form.