[OSM-legal-talk] There is no copyright on way tags like street names

[John Smith]

On 28 December 2011 18:52, andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some reasons that I think it'd be risky to use that fact that there's
> no copyright in some tags are:
>
> * copyright works this way in many jurisdictions but in other
> jurisdictions the creativity factor is less important and the amount
> of work put into collection of data (sweat of the brow) is more

According to the legal advice Ed Avis went and got, the creativity bar
is pretty low when it comes to maps, not just sweat of the brow...