[OSM-talk] Breach of Copyright?

[David Earl]

On 25/09/2009 14:30, Dave F. wrote:
> I had an email conversation with the mapping officer from my local
> council. He intimated that the data relating to public rights of way,
> and its associated copyright, would belong to the Local Council. When
> they make a legal order to record a public right of way they send a copy
> of the order to the OS who then copy the line of the right of way onto
> their own maps.

Incidentally, as well as the possible OS contamination, the Council will 
itself have database and content copyright in the data, so explicit 
permission would be needed from them to incorporate and release it under 
our CCBySA license. In obtaining that permission you could ask them to 
assert that the data was collected without reference to OS or other 
copyright base maps.

David