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

[M∡rtin Koppenhoefer]

2010/7/23 Anthony <osm at inbox.org>:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 7:37 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
> <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2010/7/20 andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com>:
>> > If you find a planet on a bus there's no contract you may be affected
>> > by.  There may be copyright, which may protect the content.  If
>> > there's nothing written on it then you basically have to assume "All
>> > rights reserved", provided there's any originality, creativity etc. in
>> > that planet dump which is not confirmed.
>>
>>
>> usually if you find something (let's say on a bus) you will not become
>> legally the proprietor (in the jurisdictions I know of). You have no
>> rights whatsoever on the found object but instead have the obligation
>> to give it back to the proprietor (e.g. by giving the found object to
>> the bus staff, or to a government agency/ the police).
>
> Depends if the property was lost, mislaid, or abandoned, in the
> jurisdictions I know of.


do you think it is probable that somebody mislays or abandons a data
CD in a bus? I mean it might not be completely impossible, but the
lost option is the most probable IMHO.

cheers,
Martin