[Talk-us] Jefferson Notch Road and latest "GPS made me do it" in the news

[Nathan Grasso]

Since OSM is used around the world, shouldn't intellectual property laws in
other countries be considered?

Nathan Grasso
https://osm.org/user/Hexocyte

On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 2:12 PM Mark Wagner <mark+osm at carnildo.com> wrote:

> In the United States, facts can't be copyrighted, only specific ways of
> expressing them.  If a news article says "the road is closed in the
> winter from Wherezit Junction to Anytown", you can freely extract the
> fact of the closure, look for the OSM ways corresponding to the
> description, and apply a "closed in the winter" tag.
>
> (If the news article instead has a map of the closure, the copyright
> situation becomes more questionable, because now you're copying not
> just the facts of the closure, but possibly the way they're expressed
> as well.)
>
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