[OSM-newbies] Where is the line between "facts" and "creative works"?

[Joseph Scanlan]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Eric Ladner wrote:

> my understanding is that government produced GIS data is public and
> not subject to copyright (since, actually you're the one that helped
> pay for it, it's partially yours, too).

Better to say US Federal Government data is public.  State and local 
governments can (and sometimes do) copyright data.

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