[OSM-legal-talk] Does importing data give you a copyright?

[John Smith]

On 16 September 2010 10:07, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> If I cut and paste a page of a Shakespeare play and put it on my web page,
> and write "CC-BY-SA 2.0" below it, that's null and void. Copying a page of
> text doesn't give me a copyright on it, and where I don't have a copyright I
> cannot license it CC-BY-SA. (I can perhaps say it but it isn't legally
> binding.)

This happens all the time, new CDs are released of out of copyright
music that copy is then re-protected.