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

[Francis Davey]

2011/6/7 Anthony <osm at inbox.org>:
>
> I could certainly see an argument that someone who changes the
> structure of the database, rearranges the contents, changes the field
> names, and reorganizes the indexes, has successfully extracted the
> Contents independent of the Database, and gets to use the whole thing
> under the DbCL.
>

As a matter of EU law that act would require permission of the owner
of the database right (since it would amount to a "re-utilisation" of
the database) which would be covered by 2.2(b).

Database copyright (to the extent it exists) I haven't thought about
at all for anywhere other than the UK, where its sufficiently
complicated to use up my time so far. You may well be right elsewhere
in the world. Something for me to think about.

-- 
Francis Davey