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

[John Smith]

On 7 July 2011 10:20, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:
> Well  300 to 400 years earlier (as in printing press with movable letters)
> which doesn't make it recent,
> but still twice as old as copyright law.
>
> The main point however is that copyright law has a economic motivation, not
> moral as you imply.

How many painters die poor?

What about famous composers?

Economics became an issue much later.