[OSM-legal-talk] INANAL - But these guys are
Robert (Jamie) Munro
rjmunro at arjam.net
Mon Feb 26 15:21:28 GMT 2007
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Nick Black wrote:
> So with a bit of arm bending, we've managed to get some CC guys to
> take a look at OSM's license situation. What we need is a one or two
> page document that summarises OSM's current license, points out the
> problems with it and summarises some questions that we have about
> licensing.
>
> Could someone/persons on this list put someting like this together? I
> don't know exactly when we are going to be meeting, but its likely to
> be in the next couple of weeks.
For me, the problem with most geodata is that if I look on a map and
point at where things are, the copyright of the list of coordinates I
derive is unclear. Weather that it npemaps doing postcodes, or ACNY
doing churches. We keep hitting this issue when importing data to OSM.
But ironically, for an open project, we aren't even fixing it for data
derived from us.
In fact, we're probably doing worse - in order to show a map of Baghdad
on ITN news, ITN may need to release the whole news under a CC-BY-SA
license. While this /probably/ isn't true, we need it to both obviously
and certainly not be true. If ITN phone Google and say "Can we use
Google Earth on the news?", Google can answer yes (possibly if they pay
or whatever). All we can say is "Maybe", partly because we don't own our
data centrally - the contributors own the data, and partly because we
don't know what the license we use says.
If the foundation owned the data and ITN called, SteveC could say "Yes
you can use the data on the evening news, as long as you show our logo
and URL".
Can the lawyers advise on:
* What is the minimum a news organisation has to do to show our maps on
the telly (under our current license)?
* What about putting using a map in a book / leaflet etc. as an
illustration?
* Would we be better off with the GPL or something that says you have to
supply updates to the source (i.e. the coordinates of the vectors) back
to the foundation, or under the license, but you don't have to license
work you derive in other forms (like allow people to photocopy your maps
or video your news reports and put them on YouTube). Is there an
approprite license for this kind of use?
* Are there any issues to be aware of if we go the multiple license for
multiple audience route - e.g. have a special license for TV companies
"just put our logo at the bottom"
* Is the wording I put on the
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Talk:OpenStreetMap_License
page adequate for asigning rights to the foundation so the foundation is
then free to go multiple license?
* What safeguards can we use to prevent the foundation doing a
"Gracenote" on us?
Robert (Jamie) Munro
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