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

[Tobias Wendorff]

Am So, 13.03.2016, 13:24 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer:
>
> what other things besides maps can be produced from our db? Not many (yes,
> you. could make "lists", but they're DBs as well). In the end, something
> like a carpet or a tshirt or a bag are just objects to apply a map on.
> FWIW, our guidelines even define electronically stored databases as
> produced works in some circumstances (e.g. garmin maps).

See the discussion with Simon. The Community Guidelines distinugish
between a database and a produced work only. So there might be the
possibility of of "legal limbo"

By the way: The German copyright law allows "fading" of copyrights.
This means, if a new work is based on the original one, but differs
a lot, it can have its own copyright.

If you create a list based on OpenStreetMap data, could all the
chars and release the list of chars, it might be faded. BUT: This only
*might* apply to OpenStreetMap, since fading only appears on single works,
not on databases or database works. For database works, I wasn't able to
find any decisions about this.