It was not OS's assertion that *only* the stylistic bits were crown copyright. The stylistic similarities were just used to prove that the map was copied.<br><br>OS claim crown copyright of the whole not just the stylistic easter eggs.
<br><br>80n<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Barnett, Phillip</b> <<a href="mailto:Phillip.Barnett@itn.co.uk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
Phillip.Barnett@itn.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Actually according to the quotes from the time [1], it's not the case
<br>that the AA were caught copying Easter eggs, or fake features. The case<br>rested on the stylistic similarities of the represented data, which, in<br>my opinion, means that the copyright infringement was of the rendering,
<br>not of the data. If it turns out, as seems to be the case, that the data<br>cannot be copyright, then that does fit with the Ordnance Survey vs The<br>AA case.<br><br>Phillip<br><br><br>[1]"A team of Ordnance Survey experts identified unique "fingerprints"
<br>in these publications which proved that the AA was using its maps as a<br>source.<br>These included stylistic features and proportions - such as the width of<br>roads in each drawing.<br>Ordnance Survey's chief executive, Vanessa Lawrence, said: "There are
<br>design elements in the way we show things which are not obvious to<br>either the user or the copier. When we see the two versions side by<br>side, we can spot clues." .... She stressed that Ordnance Survey's
<br>
"fingerprints" did not extend to putting misleading features in maps:<br>"There are some publishers who put deliberate mistakes in their maps. We<br>don't do that - it would mislead our customers. For us, it's more about
<br>the style we use." "<br><br><br><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,447171,00.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,447171,00.html
</a><br><br><br>SteveC said:<br>IANAL. We have case law here in the UK where big company a (the AA) was
<br>taken to court by b (the OS) because they copied their maps. The<br>clincher was that they also copied fake streets, easter eggs, trap<br>streets in the map. This gave away that they copied 'their' map. So does
<br><br>it fall down because these are not facts, they're creative secrets? If<br>in your next conversation or otherwise you could ask about this it would<br><br>be super helpful.<br><br><br><br><br><br>PHILLIP BARNETT
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