[Tagging] tagging awards and ratings

[Alan Mintz]

At 2012-07-27 00:37, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>But of course we weren't talking about the photo per se, but about the 
>question whether you could put the rating in the OSM database, and I 
>believe that even if the Michelin rating is displayed in a way so artful 
>that it attracts copyright, the *fact* that the hotel has a certain rating 
>will not be copyrightable.

Just to be clear, this is exactly the case I envision, and something our 
crowd-source model should be good at - people seeing/knowing from local 
knowledge that a restaurant has a certain star rating and recording and 
maintaining it in OSM. I'm given to understand that, in France in 
particular, this information is commonly known and mentioned when 
describing a restaurant.

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>