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<div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">21 Oct 2019, 13:47 by forums@david-woolley.me.uk:<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 meant you should use an account that clearly belongs to the company. I guess you could have an account for each relevant employee, but that will cause problems when an employee changes job, either internally, or to another employer.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">One can operate multiple accounts. I would say that it is preferable to have separate accounts<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">for bot edits, paid edits and hobby edits.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">And single account for a company is a communication nightmare.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Definitely do not use the same account to submit personal contributions and company ones.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">On 21/10/2019 12:37, Edward Bainton wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">Thanks, David.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Discussion ongoing on the legal list, but FYI from Frederick Ramm, who opines:<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> > PS: I would strongly advise against using a "corporate account" that<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> > groups the activities of many individuals as it makes communication<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> > between the group/company members and other members difficult, and good<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> > communication is a cornerstone of every successful organised editing<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> > activity.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I don't know if that's precisely what you meant, but here for info (without judgment either way)<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Edward<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 20:08, David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk <mailto:forums@david-woolley.me.uk>> wrote:<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> On 18/10/2019 17:43, Edward Bainton wrote:<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> > *If an employee edits the map in the course of their employment,<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> has the<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> > work been adequately licensed to OSM/the big wide Open?*<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> ><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> I think it is true worldwide that employers have the copyright in work<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> for hire, and only they can licence the use of their copyright. If the<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> map is being edited at the employers request, the employer should<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> create<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> an OSM account for such purposes.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> In the UK, if you day job is producing copyrighted maps, you will<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> almost<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> certainly find that anything you attempt to do on OSM comes under the<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> employer's copyright. 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