In a message dated 3/31/2010 12:21:33 PM Pacific Daylight Time, jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com writes:
In openstreetmap we are not allowed to import the positions of items based on the locations in wikipedia because they are derived from geoeye/googlemaps for the most part. So there is a rift between what is supposedly creative commons and what is really creative commons. Basically wikipedia is turning into a minefield of copyrighted material.>>
Are you suggesting that the mechanical determination of a longitute and latitude of some object is copyrightable material? I.E. it's "position" is copyrightable?
Or am I reading this wrong? Perhaps you're suggesting merely that the map, as an entirety is copyrightable.
W.J.