[Talk-GB] Copyright in OS-derived maps (Jez Nicholson)

Owen Boswarva owen.boswarva at gmail.com
Wed Sep 4 23:04:42 UTC 2019


As far as I know Ordnance Survey's theory of derived data has never been
tested in court. However there's an upcoming High Court decision (arising
from a dispute between 77M Ltd and OS) that might shed some light.


On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 at 23:42, Edward Bainton <bainton.ete at gmail.com> wrote:

The idea of asking a ranger to trace the boundary (on a printout of a
> thoroughly detailed OSM, of course:  better get to work...) is a great one.
> iirc, the boundaries are all pretty major geographical features, so
> hopefully fairly easy. But yes, Jez, what a faff.
>
> Out of interest, is OS's position on derived data clearly the correct one
> legally speaking?  I note the wiki talks in terms of OS 'claiming' IP in
> the derived data, not that it actually *is* their IP, so I wondered.
>
> Obviously whether OS have over-egged or not it is a wholly different
> question from whether, if they have, OSM would want to challenge them - I'm
> asking from a theoretical pov only.
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