[OSM-talk] Breach of Copyright?

[Nick Whitelegg]

>Bear in mind that "public domain" meaning "free of copyright" is a US 
term.
>The traditional UK meaning is quite different.

>In the UK, if you say "the map is now in the public domain", that means 
that
>the map is now available to the public - i.e. it's not solely an internal
>publication. It does not have any implications about copyright. Indeed, 
the
>map may well still be copyrighted.

Coincidentally I have just had a meeting with someone from one of the 
local councils who is interested in using OSM data for their online 
services. I brought up this issue and he explicitly said that the 
coordinates of the footpaths on the definitive map were derived from 
Ordnance Survey data. So this seems to be a definitive statement that you 
can't copy courses of paths from definitive maps.

Nick