Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Peter Brink <peter.brink AT brinkdata.se>]

Charles Iliya Krempeaux skrev:
> Hello,
>
> Here's something I found where someone had similar thoughts to what I was
> thinking...
>
> http://systemed.net/blog/entry060311122655.html

This blogger should do some reading on copyright law... Data, as well as 
ideas, methods, processes and other system of ideas, cannot be copyright 
protected as such. In the European Union we have a kind of investment 
protection for databases, but that protection does not cover individual 
pieces of data, it only protects against a "permanent or temporary 
transfer of all or a substantial part of the contents of a database".

The geodata being discussed on the blog are not, as far as I can see, an 
intellectual property - ergo the effects described does not occur.

/Peter Brink