[Wikipedia-l] Open Mapping
Daniel Mayer
maveric149 at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 11 17:47:50 UTC 2004
--- Magnus Manske <magnus.manske at web.de> wrote:
> While I basically agree with both notions, I can see that someone
> investing money in getting to Zaire and taking precise measurements, or
> in sequencing some DNA and determining what it does (broadly speaking),
> should get something in return. If the question is no information vs.
> information to pay for, the latter is preferable, IMHO. But, patents are
> likely the wrong way, and Wikipedians traveling to Zaire and taking down
> coordinates would certainly be best :-)
It also takes effort and money to obtain a photograph of a painting whose
copyright is in the public domain. Yet the resulting photograph is not
protected by copyright.
-- mav
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