<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 1, 2009, at 12:46 PM, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Russ Nelson schrieb:<br><blockquote type="cite">[...], or your email address<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">stops working, you waive all right to ownership of your edits.<br></blockquote><br>Probably about as legally binding as posting a note on the site that<br>says "By reading this you agree to sacrifice your firstborn to the OSMF".<br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Nothing is perfect, nothing is absolute. You could have an airplane crash on your house and kill you in your sleep. That is no reason to fail to make plans for tomorrow, or to take clear steps towards solving a problem. Yes, it probably has problems under copyright laws which recognize inalienable authorship rights, but the author would have to show or prove authorship. It's a reasonable standard to require ownership of an email address to prove ownership of the copyrighted work. In order to lose your ownership rights under this standard, you would have to 1) forget your password AND 2) not be able to receive email at the email address. Yes, somebody could come along later and propose a different standard.</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>--<br>Russ Nelson - <a href="http://community.cloudmade.com/blog">http://community.cloudmade.com/blog</a> - <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson</a><br><a href="mailto:russ@cloudmade.com">russ@cloudmade.com</a> - <a href="http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson">http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson</a></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>