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

[Francis Davey]

2011/6/7 Matt Amos <zerebubuth at gmail.com>:
>
> 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.

.. or even disavowed :-)

Even in the European Union, where there is considerably more harmony,
this is not at all a settled question. The CJEU will be looking at at
least one question referred from the UK on exactly what has happened
to database copyright. The best, and most accurate thing, one can
likely say is: some contributors may have intellectual property rights
over some aspects of their contribution in some countries and some of
those rights might be copyright and therefore fall under CC-BY-SA.

-- 
Francis Davey