On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Rob Myers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rob@robmyers.org">rob@robmyers.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 01/01/10 17:40, Anthony wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Rob Myers <<a href="mailto:rob@robmyers.org">rob@robmyers.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> But OSM does not require copyright assignment, so it is not *directly*<br>
>> relevant.<br>
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> What OSMF requires in the current draft is for you to effectively give up<br>
> your copyright altogether.<br>
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</div>That is simply untrue. OSMF requires a broad copyright licence but not<br>
an exclusive one.<br></blockquote><div><br>I didn't say it was exclusive.<br><br>"You hereby grant to OSMF and any party that receives Your Contents a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable license to do any act that is restricted by copyright over anything within the Contents, whether in the original medium or any other."<br>
<br>You grant everyone the right to do anything. You're effectively releasing your content into the public domain.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
And since OSMF are using a broad non-exclusive licence on the database,<br>
and you are arguign that for an individual to do this "effectively"<br>
gives up their rights altogether, surely OSMF are "effectively" giving<br>
up *their* rights on the database altogether?<br></blockquote><div><br>No, the ODbL is much more restrictive than "a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable
license to do any act that is restricted by copyright over anything
within the Contents, whether in the original medium or any other"<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">
> If<br>
> you agree to the contributor terms, you can't sue anyone for a license<br>
> violation, but the OSMF can.<br>
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</div>Which licence, and what are the advantages to suing in a personal<br>
capacity rather than having OSMF do so?<br></blockquote><div><br>Any license. And the advantage is that who you want to sue might be different from who the OSMF wants to sue.<br><br>For example, let's say you want to sue Cloudmade...<br>
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