[OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

[Rob Myers]

On 08/05/2010 03:20 PM, Anthony wrote:
>
> Still waiting for that definition of geodata.

It's a contraction of "geographical data".

> Just because the map is
> in digitized vector format doesn't mean it's not a digital version of
> a visual work of cartography.

The fixed form is different. The fact that one is a database (that may 
not attract copyright) and the other a picture (that may be covered by 
specific map-related copyright) is legally as well as philosophically 
significant.

Consider a written musical score and a recording of a performance of 
that score. The score is not the performance, and there are different 
laws and aspects of the law covering the two fixed forms.

- Rob.