[OSM-talk] Sourcing street names - what's the policy, and why?

Roy Wallace waldo000000 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 5 20:55:23 GMT 2010


On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 5:15 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Telstra, a carrier, won it's copyright case over companies copying
> from white/yellow pages in 2001:
>
> http://www.copyright.org.au/pdf/acc/articles_pdf/A01n09.pdf

For those who don't want to follow the link, the essence is:

"The Court concluded that [ a compilation is copyright ] ... if the
author has engaged in sufficient work or incurred sufficient expense
gathering the information."

This idea is referred to as the "sweat of the brow” or “industrious
collection” doctrine.




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