[OGDev] Visit other OpenGuides week!

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:43:35PM +0100, Kake L Pugh wrote:
> On Thu 17 May 2007, Tom Heath <tom.heath at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Ooh, brilliant!  I can add the Good Beer Guide pubs in the area, if you
> > > like?  I have a copy of the 2007 GBG, and a scripty thing to make uploading
> > > them easier.
> > 
> > On that subject, what's the licensing status for this data? I'd love
> > to add it into Revyu, but is it "owned" in some fashion by the GBG?
> 
> As I understand it (although only through having read stuff written by
> the copyright paranoia fanatics on Wikipedia), it's not possible to
> copyright facts such as "this pub is mentioned in the Good Beer Guide"
> or "this pub is open from 9am to midnight".

However, you seem to be harvesting information from what is essentially
a database, and database rights (separate from copyright - the rights you
acquire when compiling a database) apply to databases.

The details are murky and complex and for this reason I find it's best
to avoid this sort of activity.

Dominic.

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