[OSM-talk] Mountain names - an interesting copyright issue

[Dean Earley]

Emil Vaughan wrote:
>> This is another one for the lawyer. After all, geodata is nothing but
>> facts: "this road is called High Street", "this road runs from lat n1,
>> long n2 to lat n3, long n4". But if the OS can't copyright facts,
>> then, er, neither can we.
> 
> I think this is correct.  The only thing that can be copyrighted is
> the visual layout. To assert anything else would surely be to
> massively expand the scope of copyright.

So, the rendering of a map would be copyright but not the road layout 
itself....
</arkwardgit>

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