[OSM-legal-talk] Place name translations

[Tobias Knerr]

On 16.06.2013 12:27, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> > On 16/giu/2013, at 12:14, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com
>> Based on what I've seen, what they are copying from Wikipedia are data
>> and facts. In the US, facts are not copyrightable as facts do not
>> originate from creative authorship and there are no database rights in
>> the US either.
> 
> but the wikipedia terms of use require you to attribute, for instance.
> If the terms wouldn't apply in this case, couldn't we start to copy
> facts from other maps just as well?

Wikipedia's license (their terms of use do not impose any relevant
restrictions as far as I can see) is CC BY-SA, which only applies to
copyrightable content in the first place - and this may very well not
include factual data.

To me it seems this is the same reason why we doubted whether our map
data was even "protected" by CC BY-SA at all before the license change.

With Google, one difference is that their terms of use actually do
contain relevant restrictions.

Tobias