[OSM-legal-talk] Database and its contents

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On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Grant Slater
<openstreetmap at firefishy.com>wrote:

> On 23 November 2010 13:23, Grant Slater <openstreetmap at firefishy.com>
> wrote:
> > On 23 November 2010 13:04, Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> As always, the standard reality check applies: if you believe that maps
> or the
> >> data they represent are not covered by copyright, please start
> large-scale
> >> photocopying of some commercial maps, or copying the information from
> them into
> >> another format that you then publish.
> >>
> >
> > Here is some data:
> >
> > <node id="915100779" lat="51.5798222" lon="-0.3341762" version="2"
> > changeset="6058195" user="Walter Schlögl" uid="78656" visible="true"
> > timestamp="2010-10-16T14:40:13Z">
> > <tag k="name" v="McDonald's"/>
> > <tag k="amenity" v="fast_food"/>
> > <tag k="cuisine" v="burger"/>
> > </node>
> >
> > The position is a fact, name is a fact, cuisine they serve is a fact,
> > along with the other details.
>

If you think the position of this restaurant is a fact then you really need
to watch the Horizon documentary where Alan Davis tries to measure the
length of a piece of string: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00574dv


> Facts cannot be copyright. Creative Commons licences are not designed
> > for factual information.
>
>
> > Creativity is used in the above data.
>
> Typo, creativity is *NOT* used in the above data.
>
> >Whereas on the rendered map
> > http://tile.osm.org/18/130828/87084.png I would argue that creativity
> > has been used to choose the icon, position the text/icon and create
> > the "halo" around the text/icon, which is all contained in the mapnik
> > stylesheet.
> >
> > Regards
> >  Grant
> >
>
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