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

Jane Smith janesmithosm at gmail.com
Tue Aug 31 05:41:16 BST 2010


On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
copyright are the chains of the modern worker, holding to the means of
Production.

We all know copyright has maps. But data underneath is important so that is
what we workers should control.
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