[Talk-ca] Labelling camp site numbers.

[G. Michael Carter]

This is what I hate about copyright.

So if copying the name "Forest Lawn" or Campsite 19 from a map it's a 
violation.  What about copying the name from the official website?  is 
copying the name of the Ontario Science Centre from 
http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/ a violation?  (like I just did for 
this e-mail)   What about standing in front of the campsite post writing 
down the number?  It's also also a violation as I'm "copying" the 
number?  What about remembering the number?   As I said below, being 
able to copyright maps is the stupidest idea I've ever seen.  Are the 
going to start copyrighting the landscape so an artist can't draw it 
next?  I'm sure someone's tried.

Seems the only way to avoid copyright is to burn more holes in the OZONE 
layer and drive over to the location and redo surveys already done by 
several other people burning holes in the OZONE layer...

Sorry... went on a tangent... :-)

Mikey

On 28/07/10 06:49 PM, Gerald A wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:08 PM, G. Michael Carter 
> <mikey at carterfamily.ca <mailto:mikey at carterfamily.ca>> wrote:
>
>     1.  If I grab the camp site numbering off the reservations website
>     and/or campground maps would that be a violation of copyright?
>
>
> Yes, for sure. Shift the question to a more mainstream map: "If I copy 
> street names off a map, is it a copyright violation?"
>
> But, since this might be for business benefit, you could explain it to 
> the copyright holder (the camp site owner) and ask for the data
> to be licenced. Campground operators would only benefit from this. 
> (The province is a big operator too, but there is other considerations
> for ministries, unfortunately).
>
>     Side question:  Is it a violation to pull the names of object from
>     google?   (ie:  Forest Lawn Cemetery?)  Does google have copyright
>     traps like purposely miss-spelling names to catch copyright violators.
>
>
> Yes, it's a violation to copy stuff off of Google. Unless the person 
> who has the copyright waves it, it's a violation.
>
> OSM has always been on the conservative side of thing with this, and 
> rightly so.
>
> Gerald


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