Hæstiréttur, Hrd. No. 124/2002, Mál og menning hf. v. Landmælingar Íslands

Expediente y fuentes

Nombre

Hæstiréttur, Hrd. No. 124/2002, Mál og menning hf. v. Landmælingar Íslands

Cita

Hrd. No. 124/2002

Tribunal

Supreme Court of Iceland (Hæstiréttur)

Instancia

última instancia

Fechas

Decisión

2002-09-19

Presentación

2001-03-28

Estado

resuelto-firmeza-no-verificada

Resultado

The district judgment was affirmed; Mál og menning was ordered to pay ISK 250,000 in Supreme Court costs.

Resumen

The court upheld the authority’s rights and the charge under the statutory map/database framework. Its broad discussion of geographic information must be confined to the statutory objects and evidence before it; individual facts are not automatically copyright works.

Antecedentes

A publisher used state geographic data to make maps and disputed the surveying authority’s right to charge. The record concerned digital cartographic data, maps, copyright and the database-producer layer.

Historia procesal

Landmælingar filed the first action on 28 March 2001 and a supplemental action was joined in October 2001. Reykjavík District Court ruled on 13 February 2002; the publisher appealed on 12 March 2002.

Cuestión jurídica

Whether the State surveying authority held enforceable rights in the digital map database and statutory authority to require publication permission and fees for the publisher's uses.

Criterio

The court upheld the authority’s rights and the charge under the statutory map/database framework. Its broad discussion of geographic information must be confined to the statutory objects and evidence before it; individual facts are not automatically copyright works.

Fundamento decisivo

The supplied layers came from a protected database produced and maintained by the authority; the buyer accepted conditions requiring permission, and article 50 plus the surveying statute and tariff supported the specific reuse charge. The publisher did not prove the assessed fee excessive.

Límites

The judgment concerns statutory database/investment rights and contracted geographic data. It does not hold that every datum, map element, compilation, or AI output is a copyright work.

Relevancia

autoria-output

Referencias relacionadas

Peso del precedente

Published five-judge Supreme Court judgment; controlling for the statutory and evidentiary issues decided, not GenAI authorship. Integración/votación: The official publication reports the panel without an individual vote count; unanimity is not asserted.

Fuente

Referencia

Hæstiréttur, Hrd. No. 124/2002, Mál og menning hf. v. Landmælingar Íslands

Enlace

Consultar fuente

Autoridad

Supreme Court of Iceland (Hæstiréttur)

Tipo

published national Supreme Court map/database and charging judgment; non-AI

Tipo de evidencia

primary_full_text

Localizador

Dómur Hæstaréttar, sections I-II and Dómsorð

Verificación documentada

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