[OSM-talk] Illegal activity

[John Smith]

2009/11/2 Anthony <osm at inbox.org>:
> Yeah well, maybe in the US.  In France you can copyright a building
> and anyone who takes a picture of the building and uses it for
> commercial purposes without permission is committing copyright
> infringement.  Maybe they'd be willing to extend that to roads, at
> least in the case of a road with a unique design - who knows.

I'm not in France, and OSM-F is not in france and the only way this is
even remotely applicable to this thread is if those people in the
forum might be from France, otherwise it's irrelevent what laws exist
in France as far as this thread is concerned.