[OSM-legal-talk] Database and its contents

[ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen]

The position is a fact, name is a fact, cuisine they serve is a fact,
along with the other details.
Facts cannot be copyright. Creative Commons licences are not designed
for factual information.

[<GG>] 
I agree with that, and no facts can be protected by any law.

Creativity is 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.


[<GG>] as you say, the style sheet is protected, and possibly the
resulting
map (paper, png or jpeg). I personally think that the result (a graphic
map)
has not the same level of creativity, nor protection, as the method
(stylesheet).

Regards,

Gert Gremmen



Regards
 Grant

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