[OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

[Tom Hughes]

On 09/09/09 11:46, Roy Wallace wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Jonathan
> Bennett<openstreetmap at jonno.cix.co.uk>  wrote:
>>
>> There's a difference between using one fact from a newspaper article,
>> and systematically extracting data from a database to reuse in another
>> database.
>
> Is there a difference between
> 1) using one fact from a newspaper article to use in another database, and
> 2) using one fact from a database to use in another database?
>
> Can you clarify exactly what that difference is why one is legal while
> the other is not (if that is indeed what you're implying)?

Because (in the EU) Database Right kicks in and prohibits "substantial 
extraction".

Tom

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