[OSM-talk] What is a produced work

[Ulf Lamping]

Frederik Ramm schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> Your film example might fall in this category.

I provided the examples to explain that whatever license you choose, 
there will always be cases where the legal situation won't "feel right" 
for you.

> The level where ODbL affords highest protection is that of a derived 
> database, which neither your film nor your atlas are, but if you 
> produced an interactive atlas on CD-ROM that renders maps on demand, 
> then that would have an underlying derived database, and ODbL would 
> require that you ODbL-license that underlying database and make it 
> available, on request, to buyers of your CD-ROM.

Well, the publisher could simply argue that it has a collective database 
from several different databases (including his own), OSM only being one 
of them.

Regards, ULFL