[OSM-legal-talk] Brexit & EU database rights

[Edward Bainton]

*sigh

No, it's not remotely clear!

Thank you.


On Thu, 10 Dec 2020, 23:02 Simon Poole, <simon at poole.ch> wrote:

> Legal talk is not the LWG list if that isn't clear, that is
> legal at osmfoundation.org
>
> Simon
> Am 10.12.2020 um 22:11 schrieb Edward Bainton:
>
> A pleasure meeting you all at LWG this evening.
>
> I saw Brexit in the minutes for September
> "At the end of year we won't be losing database rights immediately."
>
> General guidance I've seen appears to say:
> - database rights accrued before 2021-01-01 persist (as I've seen
> discussed in minutes)
> - database rights accrued from 2021-01-01 will exist only in the UK (if at
> all: I can't see any enabling legislation after a quick look, and this may
> have gone into the Govt's "later" tray - so copyright may be the only
> protection).
>
> The last point suggests to me that any edits made after 2020-01-01 will
> have less protection than so far has been the case.
>
> Is that your understanding? Or is the database as a whole protected
> because the architecture has been built, and subsequent edits are protected
> modifications of an already-protected creation?
>
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