[Talk-GB] Mapping climbing routes/areas.

Jonathan bigfatfrog67 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 23 11:06:02 UTC 2013


I wasn't thinking they could name the physical place but more the route 
up. They could devise a particular route up a cliff, involving certain 
techniques maybe and give it name that they may claim is proprietary.  
So while we could survey and map the route we maybe infringing their 
intellectual property to name it as they have in their guide???  I don't 
know, just surmising.

Just like you can download and compile your own version of Firefox but 
you can't distribute it as Firefox with their permission! Hence 
Iceweasel :-)

Jonathan

http://bigfatfrog67.me

On 23/10/2013 11:27, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
>
> Don't know if you can do that on hills too?
>
> If there's an unnamed hill somewhere I'll call it "Proprietary Peak" 
> and charge people one million pounds to use it. ;-)
>
> Nick
>
> -----Jonathan <bigfatfrog67 at gmail.com> wrote: -----
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> From: Jonathan <bigfatfrog67 at gmail.com>
> Date: 23/10/2013 11:17AM
> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping climbing routes/areas.
>
> Hi Derry,
>
> I'm no lawyer, but if the route name was first used in a copyrighted
> publication and never used before that publication then they *may* have
> claim to it.  Bear in mind that while a route name may not be covered by
> copyright it may be covered by a trademark!?
>
> Jonathan
>
> http://bigfatfrog67.me
>
> On 23/10/2013 07:43, Derry Hamilton wrote:
> > Opinions I've seen are that route names are not copyrightable, any
> > more than road or mountain names.
>
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