[OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

[John Smith]

On 7 July 2011 09:34, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:
> That does not imply that individual contributors actually hold any rights in
> the data they
> contributed.  As we know, that is a difficult question and depends on
> jurisdiction and so
> on, and my take on it would be: probably not. For all practical purposes we
> are simply
> pretending that such rights exist and it just doesn't make sense to spend
> hours arguing
> about if moving a node creates a derivative work, because again -we are just
> pretending-.

Think that all you like, it won't make it any more true than the
comment about copyright not really applying in the digital age, the
fact is maps and map making are covered by copyright, and copyright is
recognised in most countries. Otherwise we could take other
copyrighted maps and copy them.