[OSM-talk] OSM layer into Adobe Illustrator?

[Nick Whitelegg]

> (Public Domain?) 

One thing I've always wondered about Public Domain. If data is Public Domain, is there a risk that a commercial organisation could "steal" it, place restrictive licencing on it, claim copyright over it and thus take it proprietary?

Can data have a "public domain" licence and be copyrighted, thus allowing the original data owner to take action if it was infringed in this way?

Of course OSM could always start putting in its own Easter Eggs.... :-)

Nick

 		
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