Reconciliation between CC and ODC

Posted Jan 26, 2011 0:40 UTC (Wed) by jrochkind (guest, #72573)
In reply to: Reconciliation between CC and ODC by epa
Parent article: OpenStreetMap's point of no return

It is different in other countries. There have been court cases in the US saying the opposite. You can't photocopy someone elses map, but you can indeed take all the street names and locations off of it and draw your own. That wasn't always the law in the US, but has been for about 20 years.