[OSM-legal-talk] CTs are not full copyright assignment

[Matt Amos]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:
> On 07/06/11 12:37, Ed Avis wrote:
>> Matt Amos <zerebubuth at ...> writes:
>>
>>> i've heard the 'CC-BY-SA doesn't protect
>>> the data' argument coming not only from lawyers, but also from
>>> Creative Commons itself!
>>
>> I would be interested to read that.
>
> Science Commons certainly used to say that the licences *shouldn't* be
> used for data.

yes, they're publicly on record as saying data should be PD [1], but
also the VP of science commons did say [2]:

"I'm going to be a little provocative here and say that your data is
already unprotected [under CC-BY-SA], and you cannot slap a license on
it and protect it. ... That means I'm free to ignore any kind of
share-alike you apply to your data. I've got a download of the OSM
data dump. I can repost it, right now, as public domain."

very probably that wasn't the official creative commons line, and he
wasn't a lawyer, but neither have i seen his comments officially
refuted by anyone at CC.

cheers,

matt

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ODbL_comments_from_Creative_Commons#Open_Data_Sharing_Should_Converge_on_the_Public_Domain
[2] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2008-February/000703.html