[OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] my views on the ODbL

[Anthony]

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:48 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>wrote:

> What I'm curious about is if a document is written in XML can be
> considered copyrighted, why can't geo-data be copyrighted as well
> since it's not a database of facts, but a document of information
> created, in this case, by crowd sourcing.
>

A document in XML may or may not be copyrightable.  It depends on the
underlying content, the selection of that content, the arrangement of that
content, etc.
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