[OSM-talk] Illegal activity

[Peteris Krisjanis]

2009/11/1 Anthony <osm at inbox.org>:
> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
> <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
>> in some regions/countries like the EU there is also a database protection
>> and those aerial images are / might be considered a database.
>
> Those database laws really make things tough.  It's basically a flaw in the law.

Man, it isn't a flaw, but a feature to support "poor mapmaking and
ortphoto/satphoto companies".

More or less problem is database leeching, where this addition to
copyright laws about databases is to protect from balantly copying all
databse stuff and sell it as yours. However those additions are
usually very badly and broadly written and I think they shouldn't be
applied to geo photos. But those companies usually have strong lobby
power and no one argues about these things because they don't dig it.

Anyway, to resume all this discussion - PLEASE don't trace from photo
without permission for OSM, whatever your temptations are.

Cheers,
Peter.