[talk-au] Wiki + Data Sources + Licensing Categories

Elizabeth Dodd edodd at billiau.net
Fri Apr 8 03:27:57 BST 2011


On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 10:40:15 +1000
John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8 April 2011 09:28, Ian Sergeant <inas66+osm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If the data owner doesn't grant permission under an acceptable
> > licence then we shouldn't relying on one interpretation of very
> > recent Australian case.  Especially since there are other areas of
> > law that may come into play here.  
> 
> Actually the court case was a few years ago I think, this was an
> appeal against the earlier ruling.

The Court system has affirmed the original decision.
Copyright (Au) depends on thinking about the input, and cannot be
derived from machine generated data. 



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