[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

[Anthony]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:
> On 08/30/2010 01:21 AM, John Smith wrote:
>>
>> You are still making the assumption that copyright isn't valid at all,
>> to the best of my knowledge there has been no court case about map
>> data.
>
> You are still assuming that copyright is universally valid despite court
> cases that demonstrate that it isn't.

What does that mean?  Copyright is not universally valid?  Even Iraq
has copyright now.  May not be universal, but 99.9% of the world has
copyright.

Yes, there are some court cases that say that there isn't copyright in
phone books.  But, correct me if I'm wrong, there are none that say
there isn't copyright in electronic maps.