[talk-au] Reassurance and Licensing

[John Smith]

On 27 April 2011 14:42, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir <maxious at gmail.com> wrote:
>> *sarcasm* But it all doesn't matter anyway, John Smith has degreed
>> that all Australian geodata is PD anyway. See:
>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2011-April/007829.html
>
> A lot of people do take this issue seriously as it affects how you
> collate data from now on. The works dealt with were TV Program Guides
> (IceTV Pty Limited v Nine Network Australia Pty Limited ) and Phone
> Books (Telstra Corporation Limited v Phone Directories Company Pty
> Ltd) which are not considered as ‘original works’ because the creation
> of each publication did not involve ‘independent intellectual effort’
> and/or the exercise of ‘sufficient effort of a literary nature’. The
> rigid process used to make a phone book especially did not allow the
> individual authors (phone company employees) to be creative ;)

Perhaps I should have used all caps for the benefit of Grant,
specifically the bit about being computer generated. Until or unless
computer AI gets good enough to generate map data on their own this
ruling has no bearing over geo data...