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<div style="16px" text-align="left">26 Jun 2019, 00:01 by tagging@openstreetmap.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">in particular for non-commercial and scientific use<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">This are not relevant at all, OSM data is not restricted in how it can be used.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left"> I don't know to what extent this is applicable for an international<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">project such as OSM, but there are fair-use and non-commercial ex-<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">ceptions in the copyright statutes of many countries<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">Both have limitations that make incompatible with OSM licensing<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">requirements.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">Merely reusing names of watercourses is not a breach of copyright, if<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">you research them in non-database publications<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">OSM is a database<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left"> _or_ if you do copy<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">few excerpts<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">This way lies madness, as there is no way to ensure that only one user copied<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">something. Multiple users copying only few excerpts each is not allowed.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left"> (UrhG speaks of 15% for scientific, non-commercial use)<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">How many for commercial use?<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div> </body>
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