[OSM-legal-talk] ECJ confirmed 96/9/EG for printed maps

Tobias Wendorff tobias.wendorff at tu-dortmund.de
Sun Mar 13 12:01:48 UTC 2016


Am So, 13.03.2016, 12:39 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer:
>
> I believe it has always been clear that the information stored in a map
> was a kind of database by arrangement and selection, e.g. you can't take a
> OSM based printed map that was released under cc0 and derive the contained
> information as cc0 (it remains ODbL), and you couldn't before this ECK
> decision

It might have been theoretical clear to use that this information is
protected as a database, but now we've got the legal confirmation.

I'm seeing a problem in the formulation: it might be not correct to call
a map a "produced work" anymore.




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