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

[Robert Whittaker (OSM)]

On 19 June 2011 11:21, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 June 2011 20:16, Robert Whittaker (OSM)
> <robert.whittaker+osm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thinking of the example someone gave or the copyright in sound
>> recordings being separate from the copyright in the music / lyrics,
>> I'm guessing the answer is some sort of combination of 2 and 3; along
>> the lines that person B needs to specify that while the images are
>> under the license specified, the underlying data isn't.
>
> You are correct up until the assumption is that person C doesn't have
> access to the original data, instead they are deriving data from the
> produced images.

While person C could indeed get access to the original data (which
must be offered by B), in the hypothetical situation I envisaged, they
choose not to do so. They obtain the produced work under PD/CC0 or
CC-By without seeing the database it was produced from or agreeing to
the ODbL.

-- 
Robert Whittaker