[OSM-talk] Breach of Copyright?

[David Earl]

On 28/09/2009 08:53, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> One council (West Sussex) referred to its data as "public domain" when I 
> last looked. I'd guess that's the same for all councils.

Well, their website has a clear copyright notice and the legal page says 
you need to contact them to use any data. I imagine many councils would 
be quite happy to give permission, but the default position is that 
copyright persists in their data.

David