[OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

[John Smith]

On 18 June 2011 00:30, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 06/17/11 16:20, John Smith wrote:
>>
>> Patents don't apply here
>
> I am trying to make a general point about the scope of CC licenses, to which
> the "patents" example is relevant.
>
> Do you or do you not agree, that if a picture describing a patent is made
> available under CC-BY-SA (and NOT CC-BY-ND), one's ability to implement the
> procedure described in the picture, and thereby create a derivative work of
> the picture, would be limited?

There is 4 types of IP law (5 in the EU with the 5th being DB
directive), contract, patent, copyright, trademarks. You can't apply
patents laws against copyright and vice versa, so no you are wrong on
this matter, or it's a very very poor example.