On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Russ Phillips wrote:
> I have a question. I like the efforts made to collect postcode data by
> NPE and Free the Postcode, and have contributed data to all three
> projects. However, I don't understand why collecting postcode data
> through sites like NPE and Free the Postcode is not infringing Royal
> Mail's copyright.
Our understanding is that you can't copyright a single postcode. You can,
however, claim a similar bit of IP rights (database rights) over a
collection of postcodes
If you extract a bunch of postcodes + lat + long combinations from
codepoint, or even if lots of people each extract one set, then you're
infringing on the RM database rights on the collection. If you were to
extract out a long list of postcodes, but not lat + long, from one of the
RM databases, then again you're infringing on DB rights.
However, taking one postcode (with no other data), and work out its
position yourself, there is no extraction from the RM database, so no
infringement.
Nick
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