[OSM-legal-talk] Database and its contents

[Ed Avis]

Francis Davey <fjmd1a at ...> writes:

 Database copyright arises when the database is the author's "own
 intellectual creation". That means that some design or creativity has
 to have gone into the database - it can't simply be an assemblage of
 facts.
 
 Database right arises when there is a "substantial investment". It
 focuses on work not creativity. Lots of work in making a database
 won't get you copyright but may get you database right.

 It is much more likely that OSMF attracts database right than database
 copyright.

Thanks for clarifying this.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>