[OSM-legal-talk] Some questions about using ODbL "Produced Work"

[Tadeusz Knapik]

Hello,

> The currently accepted wisdom is that there exists a separate channel,
> apart from copyright, in which database right persists no matter what
> copyright license is used.
>
> This means that *if* somebody took lots and lots of CC-BY-SA-published
> OSM maps and reverse-engineered them into a new database, this database
> would then *automatically* fall under ODbL even if that was not
> mentioned in the CC-BY-SA product.
>
> This may sound hardly believeable to some but it is indeed not an
> uncommon concept. Imagine that I prepare an article about how Dyson's
> bagless vacuum cleaners work, and upload that to Wikipedia under
> CC-BY-SA. Which is totally legal. Then you download the article and you
> go: "Ha! This is CC-BY-SA so no further restrictions can be added. I
> will build this vacuum cleaner and flood the world with inexpensive and
> eco-friendly Dupont cleaners!" - Sure enough, after a while Dyson will
> come knocking and sue you for infringement of their patent.

As you said it, _their patent_.
Do you state that ODbL license is equal to a patent when it comes to
protect the data (apart from being 'free and open')?
I think you need a better example to break the "hardly believeable" spell.
Sincerely,

Tadeusz Knapik