The Guardian has picked up on the same "can geodata be copyrighted?" paper discussed on legal-talk recently: http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2049772,00.html and a well known friend-of-OSM gets a new job at some tech company or other: http://www.edparsons.com/?p=448 (Is he still scheduled to be keynoting State of the Map?) cheers Richard