[Gfoss] "Lawyers claim mapping databases do not enjoy copyright protection "

Paolo Cavallini cavallini at faunalia.it
Thu Apr 19 15:42:03 CEST 2007


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Interessante. in effetti trattare la digitalizzazione di una strada come
"lavoro artistico" e pretendere di sottoporlo a licenze pensate per
proteggere le sonate di Bach pare parecchio stiracchiato, come argomento.
D'altra parte, concetti come "sostanziale", "irragionevolmente" ecc.
secondo me sono scarsamente applicabili in un sistema giudiziario e
legislativo come quello italiano (fondato, come noto, sul diritto
romano, e non sulla common law).
Un'altra spallata comunque alla proprieta' del dato geografico, si
vedra' se coronata da successo o meno.
Certamente un argomento da usare.
pc

Piergiorgio Cipriano ha scritto:
> Per chi non ha ancora letto:
> http://society.guardian.co.uk/e-public/story/0,,2050028,00.html
> 
> New study casts doubt on Ordnance Survey's copyright control
> 
> According to a new study by government-funded intellectual property
> lawyers, some users at least have a legal right both to extract items of
> data and to pass them on to third parties. A study by Charlotte Waelde
> of the University of Edinburgh's School of Law concludes that a
> geospatial database does not enjoy copyright protection, as Ordnance
> Survey claims, but rather is protected by the European Database Directive.
> ...
> The argument is complex, but may have important consequences. Unlike
> copyright law, which can be used to block the reproduction of almost any
> part of a creative work - even John Cage's 4'33" of silence - the
> database directive allows users to copy information, provided that it is
> not a "substantial" part of a database. The use must also be lawful and
> "not conflict with the normal exploitation of the database or
> unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the maker".
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Paolo Cavallini
http://www.faunalia.it/pc
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