[Imports] South KC address import

[Brian May]

On 7/23/2018 10:51 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>>>      RESERVATION OF RIGHTS
>>>
>>>      The City reserves the right to discontinue availability of content
>>> on this website at any time and for any reason. The City reserves the
>>> right to claim or seek to protect any patent, copyright, trademark, or
>>> other intellectual property rights in any of the information, images,
>>> software, or processes displayed or used at this website. These Terms of
>>> Use do not grant anyone any title or right to any patent, copyright,
>>> trademark or other intellectual property rights that the City may have
>>> in any of the information, images, software, or processes displayed or
>>> used at this website.
>> This term is vague. That's why I think that it is incompatible. Data to
>> be added to OSM must not have revokeable licenses (except violation of
>> the license).
> What exactly do you find problematic?
>
> City reserves right to shut down their website... which is not a
> problem.
>
> 									Pavel

State law defines what constitutes a public record held within a 
state/county/city agency for all government entities within a state. The 
laws also define methods of access and whether records can be 
copyrighted and/or restricted in any way. Look up the state law 
regarding public records and see whether or not the city has any say at 
all.

Many times the legalese put on a state/county/city website is 
meaningless and was put there for some sort of feel-good "protection 
from misuse" or "protection of rights" that the state/county/city does 
not even have. For example, if Kansas has open records laws and all 
public records are in the public domain, you are good to go no matter 
what the city says on their website. If Kansas has public records laws 
that allow states/counties/cities to copyright public data and restrict 
how it is used, then you have to negotiate with the state/county/city, 
because they may say, OK well that was legal mumbo-jumbo, we are fine if 
you use it in the public domain. Or they can say, we the government own 
the people's data and the people don't have unrestricted rights to the 
data, etc, because the state laws allow them to do that.

Brian