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

[Florian Lohoff]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 04:41:16AM +0000, Jane Smith wrote:
> 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.


No copyright was the true reason for Germanys rapid industrial expansion:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,710976,00.html

A small quote:

	"German authors during this period wrote ceaselessly. Around 14,000 new
	publications appeared in a single year in 1843. Measured against population
	numbers at the time, this reaches nearly today's level. And although novels
	were published as well, the majority of the works were academic papers.

	The situation in England was very different. "For the period of the
	Enlightenment and bourgeois emancipation, we see deplorable progress in Great
	Britain," Höffner states.

	Equally Developed Industrial Nation

	Indeed, only 1,000 new works appeared annually in England at that time
	-- 10 times fewer than in Germany -- and this was not without consequences.
	Höffner believes it was the chronically weak book market that caused England,
	the colonial power, to fritter away its head start within the span of a
	century, while the underdeveloped agrarian state of Germany caught up rapidly,
	becoming an equally developed industrial nation by 1900."

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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