[OSM-talk] Cracking the Secret Codes of Europe's Galileo Satellite

[Emil Vaughan]

On 7/12/06, Dean Earley <dean at earlsoft.co.uk> wrote:
> > "The Europeans cannot copyright basic data about the physical world" -
> > the ordnance survey thinks it can......... :)
>
> As I understand it, their represntation of it (the rendering) is copyright
> AS WELL AS the "creative" parts they put in to protect their hard work and
> stop people stealing it. This is why we can't blindly copy them.
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No-one would question that their rendering is copyright, but they also
claim that if you copy street names from one of their maps you are
making a derivative work. This is what I was referring to.

Emil