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<div>Mar 8, 2021, 19:43 by kathleen.lu@mapbox.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>At least in the US, the threshold is quite low, and I would say all of your examples meet the threshold.<br></div><div>(For road signs, but not icons, there's also separately the issue of fair use.)<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>:(<br></div><div><br></div><div>Now I am worried about some other things from<br></div><div><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:PD-licensed_as_below_threshold_of_originality" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:PD-licensed_as_below_threshold_of_originality</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Multipolygon_Illustration_3_de_plus_benachbarte_fl%C3%A4che.svg">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Multipolygon_Illustration_3_de_plus_benachbarte_fl%C3%A4che.svg</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Mapbox-680.png">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Mapbox-680.png</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Amenity_stripclub-icon.png">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Amenity_stripclub-icon.png</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Amenity_stripclub.svg">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Amenity_stripclub.svg</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Brasil_history_points.svg">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Brasil_history_points.svg</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Icon-Edit-map.png">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Icon-Edit-map.png</a><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>I do note that all of your examples came from the same user. Have you tried contacting that user? <br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Yes. <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User_talk:Sergionaranja">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User_talk:Sergionaranja</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Replied to request in 2014, but I am not sure how can I interpret this and it applies <br></div><div>to only subset at best.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Q: Would it be OK for you to let us distribute your icons alongside JOSM code (GPL2+) ?<br></div><div><br></div><div>A: it is ok with me<br></div><div><br></div><div>There was no reply to request in 2016, so I am not expecting reply to my request,<br></div><div>sadly it may be necessary to delete them :(<br></div><div><br></div><div>I will try to reach out again or in some other way as this icons are pretty nice and <br></div><div>may be useful (unlike some less useful images where I just request deletion by wiki admins).<br></div><div><br></div><div>Scroll down on <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Labelled_for_deletion">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Labelled_for_deletion</a> page<br></div><div>to see where deletion is currently requested.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div class=""><div class="" dir="ltr">On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 1:31 AM Mateusz Konieczny via legal-talk <<a href="mailto:legal-talk@openstreetmap.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">legal-talk@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class=""><div><div>I am trying to process <a target="_blank" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Media_without_a_license" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Media_without_a_license</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>My problem right now is deciding which images fit <br></div><div><a target="_blank" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:PD-shape" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:PD-shape</a><br></div><div>"simple geometric shapes. These are not eligible for copyright alone because they are not original enough"<br></div><div><br></div><div>For example I am unsure about:<br></div><div><a target="_blank" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:2020_st_powergensource_wind.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:2020_st_powergensource_wind.svg</a><br></div><div><a target="_blank" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:2020_st_placeofworship_shinto.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:2020_st_placeofworship_shinto.svg</a><br></div><div><a target="_blank" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:2020_st_amenity_pub.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:2020_st_amenity_pub.svg</a><br></div><div><a target="_blank" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:2020_st_amenity_restaurant.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:2020_st_amenity_restaurant.svg</a><br></div><div><a target="_blank" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:2020_st_placeofworship_sikh.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:2020_st_placeofworship_sikh.svg</a><br></div><div><a target="_blank" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:2020_st_placeofworship_pastafarian.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:2020_st_placeofworship_pastafarian.svg</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I would appreciate any help in any of below:<br></div><div><br></div><div>- deciding whatever describing this images as simple geometric shapes<br></div><div>ineligible for copyright as not original enough is correct<br></div><div><br></div><div>- looking at<br></div><div><a target="_blank" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:PD-licensed_as_below_threshold_of_originality" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:PD-licensed_as_below_threshold_of_originality</a><br></div><div>whether images there are actually so simple to be below threshold of originality<br></div><div><br></div><div>- help in spotting wrong or misleading content on any of linked pages<br></div><div>(I am not a lawyer)<br></div><div><br></div><div>- help in processing <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Media_without_a_license">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Media_without_a_license</a><br></div><div>(marking images for deletion where appropriate, replacing images with unclear copyright<br></div><div>with one where it is clear, asking uploaders to clarify licensing status etc)<br></div></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div> legal-talk mailing list<br></div><div> <a target="_blank" href="mailto:legal-talk@openstreetmap.org" rel="noopener noreferrer">legal-talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br></div><div> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk</a><br></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div> </body>
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