[Foundation-l] Copyrighted maps and Derived works from copyrighted sources.

[Andre Engels]

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:28 PM, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
<jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Guys,
> Lets get back to one point : terms of service.
>
> We are talking about copyright here the whole time, but the contract
> agreement in the terms of service are much more binding, they override
> your copyright.
>
> If the terms of service do not allow mass database extraction, WP is
> violating that on a large scale.

How? By having people look on their pages every now and again, and see
around which coordinates they are at a certain point? If that is "mass
database extraction" then simply looking at the maps is "mass database
extraction on a truly enormous unprecedented scale". Besides, even
_if_ we would agree that pulling some bits of data from a map or a
picture based on a database which probably is not even _in_ that
database as such would entail "mass database extraction", then still
the only one breaking anything would be the person who originally
determined that village X is at coordinates Y, not the people who next
copy this bit of knowledge.


-- 
André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com