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Thanks Simon. I've changed the preamble and added "clearly" to the
question. Better now? May be needs tweaking further - It is
important that board members and potential board members get the
right data on which to form opinions!<br>
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"The OSMF is incorporated in the UK. The UK completely leaves the
European Union on 31 December 2020 and so EU database rights held by
UK entities are impacted. Do you think that changes that keep our
license clearly enforceable in the EU (e.g. moving the OSMF) are
important? Would you give them high priority for your involvement in
the OSMF board?
"<br>
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Mike<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2020-11-18 17:47, Simon Poole wrote:<br>
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<p>The way it is formulated isn't quite correct*, but the
underlying issue does exist.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 18.11.2020 um 17:25 schrieb
Michael Collinson:<br>
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I have one due diligence issue. Can anyone confirm the legal
situation in this question? Just checking: <br>
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href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Foundation/AGM20/Election_to_Board#Should_we_do_anything_about_EU_database_rights.3F"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Foundation/AGM20/Election_to_Board#Should_we_do_anything_about_EU_database_rights.3F</a>
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<p>* existing databases that where originally published in the EU
remain protected until the protection runs out, that is after 15
years. -inside- the EU that period restarts when, article 10: <br>
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<p><i>"</i><i>3. Any substantial change, evaluated qualitatively
or quantitatively, to the contents of a database, including
any substantial change resulting from the accumulation of
successive additions, deletions or alterations, which would
result in the database being considered to be a substantial
new investment, evaluated qualitatively or quantitatively,
shall qualify the database resulting from that investment for
its own term of protection."</i></p>
<p>Such an extension event would require us to be publishing in
the EU, but extrapolating from that, that current new additions
to the database are unprotected is likely wrong (there is no
relevant case law afaik).<br>
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