[OSM-legal-talk] Copyright status of OSM map data - initial results

[Rob Myers]

On 09/09/11 15:57, Ed Avis wrote:
> 
> In the US, the two lawyers found that the OSM map data is
> copyrightable.  They mentioned the explicit inclusion of maps in
> copyright law 

But geodata is not a map, and the copyright on the database is not the
copyright on its contents.

> My barrister in the UK fist considered the situation under the
> Copyright Act 1911. 

The 1911 act has long since been repealed in the UK, though.

> - That's the summary, as I best translate it from my notes of the two
> phone calls.

Thank you for going to all the trouble of doing this and sharing the
results publicly.

- Rob.