[Talk-us] Interested in importing address points in New York State

[Russell Nelson]

On 7/16/20 5:26 AM, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-us wrote:
> On the other hand, it may be unoriginal database... Still, the 
> preferred version is to have an explicit
> license.

I tried getting some acknowledgement from New York State GIS that their 
data was not copyrighted or not copyrightable back when I imported the 
NYSDEC lands shapefile. The most I could get out of them was that they 
don't claim a copyright. I had saved that email thread on my Cloudmade 
laptop. After I got laid off and had to send the laptop back, I didn't 
think to save that email.

As you say, it's just a listing of facts about the world. At most the 
presentation of them is copyrightable, but as Skyler noted, he's 
changing the presentation.

No license needed for facts.