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

[John Smith]

On 16 September 2010 11:19, Dave F. <davefox at madasafish.com> wrote:
> Would that protection only apply to the physical characteristics of the CD,
> such as printed inlay sleeves?
> Does the music not remain in the public domain?
>
> Similar for Fredrik's web page. The format/decoration that he applied would
> be copyrightable, but I could freely copy-paste the Shakespeare text from

In this case a lot of the data has been changed after import, in the
case of shakespeare it'd be like rephrasing some of it, at the very
least the changes couldn't be copied...