[OSM-talk] Lighthouses? Should they be rendering?

[Lauri Hahne]

But

On 09/02/2008, Dermot McNally <dermotm at gmail.com> wrote:
> It would be great to get these rendering - in particular, since
> there's a spreadsheet made available by the Commissioner of Irish
> lights with the lat and long for all lighthouses for Irish coastal
> waters and their site doesn't assert any copyright that would prevent
> its importation. These can be very useful landmarks on land and sea.
>

But the problem is that copyright is opt-out, not opt-in. So not
having no mention of copyright gives you no right what so ever. Though
if it's just a list of facts, it's only covered by database rights
which don't apply unless there has been a lot of work in creating the
database.

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Lauri Hahne