[OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

[John Smith]

On 17 July 2010 22:04, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17 July 2010 21:57, Heiko Jacobs <heiko.jacobs at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Did I misunderstood the posting below because of not perfect english?
>
> I was thinking about a different email, however it's the same case but
> has the wrong interpretation as to the scope.
>

The grounds of the case was purely over if facts themselves could be
copyrighted, the ruling was based on if individual facts within a
database were covered by copyright, and as a result the database
itself. However as soon as you add creative content it changes things,
but from what I've been told, there won't be a final ruling on this
till next year, in the meant time Telstra (owner of white/yellow
pages) is going round trying to get this over turned.