[OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] OSMF - OSM usage guidelines

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Nick Black wrote:
> On Nov 19, 2007 8:42 AM, Nic Roets <nroets at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> The easiest way OSM can steer clear of the possibility ot his happening, is
>>>> for OSM to not use anything produced by MegaMapping Inc, in any way.
>>> atlas into OSM, or a countryside route in whihc we used an Ordnance Survey
>>> map as an aid to navigation *even if we did not copy the information from the
>> Yep, I don't think we should underestimate what falls under "fair use", e.g.
> 
> AFAIK, there is no concept of fair use outside of the US.

The phrase "fair use" is from US law, yes, but to say "there is no
concept of fair use" is slightly exaggerating - it's not that it doesn't
exist, it's just that it has a different name, "fair dealing", and it is
less powerful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing

But I don't think that either the legal term "fair use" or "fair
dealing" is applicable here - they are both about quoting other peoples
work in reference, not about deriving information.

The argument we are having is to what extent copyright applies to the
information conveyed in a work where that information is a collection of
facts that are discoverable elsewhere. This is probably more database
rights territory, rather than copyright.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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