[OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

[Anthony]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Francis Davey <fjmd1a at gmail.com> wrote:

> But there is quite a high threshold for protection since there is a
> requirement that databases so protected "by reason of the selection or
> arrangement of their contents, constitute the author's own
> intellectual creation".


At the very least, doesn't the categorization of roads into
motorway/trunk/primary/secondary/etc constitute "arrangement of the
contents"?  I find it hard to believe there's *absolutely no originality* in
OSM.  There's a little bit, even if it is the less interesting (to me)
parts.
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