[Talk-ca] Labelling camp site numbers.

[Gerald A]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:10 PM, G. Michael Carter <mikey at carterfamily.ca>wrote:

>  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)
>

If the site has a Copyright, then that too is a potential violation. There
was a whole bunch of silliness a few years back about putting teasers to
content vs. linking and who controls who can link to whom. Too much legal
stuff, and I'm not a lawyer.


> 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.
>

I think the general wisdom is if you are there "on the ground", then you are
ok. And again, you might be able to use maps, and just asking an attraction
like the science centre might get you permission to use for OSM.


> Are the going to start copyrighting the landscape so an artist can't draw
> it next?  I'm sure someone's tried.
>

Not landscape, but look for something about lights on the Eiffel Tower.


> 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...
>

I know it sounds wasteful, but we're trying to create a map that has
freedoms associated with it. You can't create those freedoms with things
that *might* be encumbered by someone else's copyright, no matter how silly
it seems. Unless, of course, the person who owns the copyright is willing to
let the freedoms apply to their material.

Thanks,
Gerald
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