On Mar 31, 2015 4:55 AM, "Andrew Guertin" <andrew.guer...@uvm.edu> wrote: >> >> I wonder that nobody so far did spell out a warning about adding >> information from websites. The simple key website=* is ok, but every >> information like address, prizes and all the amenities is most of the >> time not usable due to license problems. >> >> cu fly > > > I'm pushing this offtopic and this discussion should probably go to legal-talk (I've set reply-to there), but that paragraph does not match my understanding of copyright law (IANAL, etc.). > > My understanding is that a piece of information like an address or phone number is a fact and is ineligible for copyright protection. If the fact has been collected into a database, though, the database is in some countries eligible for protection under a separate form of IP. > > Thus if you go to a business' website to find their phone number and put it in OSM, everything is okay, but if you go to a phone book to find it, that's not okay and you could impact use of OSM in jurisdictions that have database protections. > > --Andrew > >
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