Дана Thursday 01 April 2010 20:30:10 Aude написа:
There are differences in how data (incl. map data) is treated under US law and how UK/European law treat data and data collections/databases
Wikipedia is operates under US copyright law, w/ servers and the foundation US based (not sure how the Amsterdam servers fit under laws). In the US, facts such as listings in the phone book and geocoordinates are not copyrightable. I think wikipedians deriving these facts from google maps or google earth is okay under us law
On the otherhand, openstreetmap is based in the uk with servers in London, and operates under uk/european law. I know that databases and data collections do get some protection under law there. Thus openstreetmap regards databases of coordinates (eg google) as having protection and disallows google maps as a source for osm
Although deriving geocoordinates from google maps for wikipedia (under us law) is okay, I would prefer not doing so and use osm, NASA
This is so wrong on several levels. Databases can be copyrighted under US law, facts are not copyrighted under UK law, an image is not a database, deriving coordinates from Google Maps is OK under other laws and so on.