Am 20.06.2011 22:48, schrieb Matthias Julius:
.. I was just skimming through the Swiss trademark law. Particularly interesting I found Art. 16 (http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/232_11/a16.html). This says that when you reproduce a registered trademark in a dictionary, a reference book, or similar without a notice about its registration the owner of the trademark can demand that you include such a notice when you publish it the next time.
This to me implies that the reproduction of a trademark in such a work (and I would include the OSM database or a map in there) is permitted and that the worst thing that could happen is that SchweizMobil is coming and wants a notice that its their trademark.
No, the whole point of trademark law is to stop competitors from labelling competing products with the same or similar names and any maps and route descriptions would clearly be exactly that. SchweizMobil has, as you probably know, taken the stance that we are competition (which in some aspects is clearly true).
Anyway the argument is somewhat moot, I just did a short search and couldn't find anything that SchweizMobil has registered (which is the other silly extreme compared to the stuff the Fédération française de la randonnée pédestre has protected). That leaves normal copyright (well really Urheberrecht) protection on their materials.
If you want to do the work to rename everything more power to you.
Simon