[OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

[Anthony]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> No.  There is no equivalent to Section 114 of the US code
> (http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#114) for geographical
> databases or cartographic images.

Title 17, of course.

The reason "there are different laws and aspects of the law covering"
scores and sound recordings is that Congress decided to make special
laws about them.

A closer analogy would be source code and binaries.  Copyright law
obviously covers both.