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

[Alex Hennings]

Regarding: "No license needed for facts"
A reminder that the *collection *of facts is part of it's presentation, and
can have copyright protection. You'd be creating a derivative work. This is
what protects recipe books, maps, and dictionaries. I'm not a lawyer.

On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 7:37 AM Russell Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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