[OSM-legal-talk] Question about copyrighted hiking routes in France

[Richard Fairhurst]

Eric Sibert wrote:
> They established a route that for instance allows to from city A 
> to city B but not with the short way. Instead, it is going left and 
> right to visit points of interest, alpine hutch and so on. They 
> claim that such a work is an original work.

Yes, I can see that. I've planned such routes
(http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/65903, in particular); it's
hard work and requires a lot of judgement. It would qualify for
sweat-of-the-brow copyright protection in the UK were it not for the
statutes expressly limiting this to "original literary, dramatic, musical or
artistic works; sound recordings, films or broadcasts; and the typographical
arrangement of published editions". French law appears to have no such
limitation.

cheers
Richard





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