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

[Frank Mohr]

Dean Earley wrote:
> 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>
> 

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rechte_an_Geoinformationen

has links to some Bundesgerichtshof judgments (highest appeals court
in Germany) that say exactly that

frank

	

	
		
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