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

[Andy Robinson]

Dean Earley wrote:
>Sent: 28 June 2006 18:22
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Mountain names - an interesting copyright issue
>
>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>


I guess there would be a lot of engineers like I claiming copyright on our
engineering layout designs if the latter was so.


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Cheers

Andy Robinson