[OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

[Rob Reid]

Russ Nelson wrote the following on 06/05/2009 14:29:
> On May 5, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>   
>> Russ Nelson wrote:
>>     
>>> Fine enough, and who sweated hardest to click in a particular point
>>> on  a Google Map?  Google?  Or the Wikipedia editor[...]?
>>>       
>> Sweat-of-the-brow doesn't mean that. It doesn't mean that "A did  
>> some work,
>> but B did more, so B owns the copyright". _Both_ A and B own some  
>> copyright.
>>     
>
> What work or creativity did Google do towards the existence of that  
> particular point?  Given the coordinates of a particular point, how  
> would Google take those numbers into court and say "Your honour, those  
> numbers belong to us."  Particularly when Google had no idea that  
> those numbers existed before they were published in Wikipedia.  Can  
> you conceive of ANY legal system which would allow someone to claim  
> copyright protection on 14 digits that they weren't aware of until  
> they were published by someone else?  With a straight face?  No  
> pulling my leg now, this is a serious conversation.
>
> To think that Google has ANY copyright ownership of points chosen off  
> their aerial photographs simply boggles the mind.  
Excellent, so there is nothing to stop me tracing my entire town off 
Google Imagery into osm, since all I would be doing is choosing points 
off their aerial photograghs and they are not contributing in any way to 
me doing that?
Or would I be on safer ground if I created a page on Wikipedia that 
listed all the streets on my local town with start and end points chosen 
off Google and all the POI  with locations chosen off Google and then 
wait for 'someone' to import them into osm?

rcr