[OSM-legal-talk] Legal status of certain mapping activities

[Simone Aliprandi]

> Frederik's perspective on question 4 seems correct to me. Speaking
> imprecisely (by necessity, given national differences on these questions),
> IP rights attach to the creative form that expressions of fact take; and,
> in the EU, the collective form of those facts when arranged into a
> database. The facts themselves are not protected from reuse.

Yes... but remember that the EU -socalled- sui generis right prevents
the unauthorized extraction and reuse of a substantial portion of the
database.
We should better understand the meaning of "substantial portion". What
about a script that extracts systematically single facts
(not-copyrightable) from the database?
My 2 cents. Cheers,
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Simone Aliprandi - http://www.aliprandi.org | http://www.array.eu