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

[Piergiorgio Cipriano]

(rimetto in copia anche la ml discussione di FGI)

Designing a licensing strategy for sharing and re-use of data

Il report di Charlotte Waelde è disponibile su freegis-italia.org (
http://www.freegis-italia.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_details&gid=32&Itemid=65
)
oppure da http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=176



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On 4/19/07, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini a faunalia.it> wrote:
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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".
> - --
> Paolo Cavallini
> http://www.faunalia.it/pc
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