[Talk-GB] UK Licences

[Mateusz Konieczny]

10 Sep 2019, 16:09 by robert.whittaker+osm at gmail.com:

> On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 at 13:49, Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne at joda.org> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to see some guidance on whether data can be taken directly
>> from a business's website and entered directly into OSM. eg. on the
>> "contact us" page there is often address, postcode, phone number,
>> opening hours. This page
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:postal_code says "You can even
>> look them up on the official website of the place" which suggests you
>> can, but normal copyright of websites would suggest you can't.
>>
>
> My take is that if it's an independent store with a single site, or a
> small group -- say up to about half a dozen premises -- then you can
> use the address(es) listed on their official website, as they're
> un-copyrightable facts. For chains with more stores, the addresses of
> each branch will form part of a database, and then database rights put
> them off-limits for OSM, unless you get specific permission from the
> business.
>
Note
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2019-July/thread.html <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2019-July/thread.html>
discussion that have some quite 
 arguments that in this case
database rights may not apply.
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