[OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes
Simon Poole
simon at poole.ch
Thu Jul 7 00:47:43 BST 2011
Am 06.07.2011 23:25, schrieb Andreas Perstinger:
> ....
> BTW I've just found some high court decisions which clearly state that
> a map (and its content) isn't protected by copyright automatically
> here in Austria. You have to prove individual creativity. Just
> reproducing geographical facts like the course of a street or a river
> is not enough:
>
>
Which is really not a big surprise, there a many many activities that we
engage in day by day in which you continuously make decisions (as in
mapping). Should I place the brick a bit more to the left or to the
right, should I place a node there or better here.
Normally none of them lead to a protected work and nobody would confuse
it for creativity (not that a crooked brick wall couldn't be a work of
art, but most of the time it's just crooked).
Simon
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