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only one thing is for sure here and thats pocketgps own the data and the database

Pocketgps own the copyright solely to the database not the data

cant handle that fact then seek council

I ...

As regards the copyright and to as who owns the data, surely by uploading submissions /Corrections etc. you are agreeing for that information to be added to the database otherwise why upload it in the ...

True again....However if as you contend the raw data cannot be copyrighted then the raw data can be taken from the database and used for whatever purpose by anyone.

Obviously we have taken advice o ...

Obviously being a reasonably long standing member and a contributor, I have to say that the fact that those members have not contributed over once does not suprise me at all, in fact in my area I fi ...

When we started we initially built up the database core from the scant information that was available in the public domain but it might be useful information to know that out of the entire safety ca ...

True again....However if as you contend the raw data cannot be copyrighted then the raw data can be taken from the database and used for whatever purpose by anyone.
Now how do you realistically expec ...

the raw data *cannot* be copyright.

Yet Pocketgps claim ownwership and copyright of the data?

What can be copyrighted is the creation of a collection of data that is presented in a certain ...

updating and collating the speed camera database.

does not give them ownership of the data provided to them despite their claim to copyright of it.

At the end of the day if you do not wan ...

I would be interested to receive an answer from Pocketgps to this.
Do Pocketgps regard the data supplied by forum members as being covered by copyright or not?

How about an agreement for a copy of the data (as is at the last download) to be made available to forum members (those who originally produced the data), to maintain and update in whatever amateurish ...

I do hope the Pocketgps team have taken legal advise on this matter, as I have now been informed by a solicitor that there are breach of contract issues here.
Basically in the original discussion abo ...

Just because the individual data is freely available doesn't mean that the compiled data has to be given away free. Electoral roll data is freely available to anyone who wishes to view the public r ...

In this case ALL the third party data contributed to the database is protected by copyright.

This is just not true. For something to be copyright it has to be a unique creation in some way. Just r ...

unfortunately these things happen! it's publicly available data (anyone can get co-ords for a fixed point on a street) so very hard to prove ownership.

MaFt

So how can Pocketgps sell something ...

I would note that the camera location data that I provided (free of charge) in the early part of this project is automatically covered by copyright and I expressly refuse its use on any commercial pay ...

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