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

[Rob Myers]

On 07/17/2010 12:30 PM, John Smith wrote:
> On 17 July 2010 20:11, Rob Myers<rob at robmyers.org>  wrote:
>> If this is the case then given that the CC licences are copyright licences
>> what would they apply to in the OSM database in Australia?
>
> The court case in question was over facts, dates and times and show
> names, IceTV who instigated this case, also pays students to review
> shows, which adds an element of creativity to their database of facts.

Thanks. So IceTV weren't infringing on Channel Nine's copyright as 
Channel Nine didn't have one on the mere facts of their programme 
schedule, but IceTV's combined and creativity-added database is above 
the creativity/originality threshold required to gain copyright 
protection as a (collective?) literary work?

There has been discussion in the past about how "creative" the various 
levels of OSM are (my personal opinion is raw data:not, edited and 
combined ways:possibly, rendered maps:definitely). The outcome wasn't to 
rely on creativity. ;-)

- Rob.