[OSM-legal-talk] Progressing OSM to a new dataLicence regime

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> Say a company, Foo Inc, builds a business on providing services  
> relating
> to OSM data, which includes contributing to the database. Some US
> company, Bar Corp, takes OSM data and breaks the contract - e.g. by
> adding their own information but keeping it proprietary.

This is an interesting idea.

I am not quite sure whether the "contract" would be between OSM and  
the user, or between the contributor and the user.

If the contract is between OSM and the user, then Foo cannot sue Bar  
for breach of contract because they have no contract. (Can my  
business sue your business because you use a pirated copy of  
Microsoft Windows and thus have an unfair advantage? Unsure but don't  
think so.)

If the contract is between Foo and Bar, and Bar is using data  
contributed by Foo, then in what way would Bar have an unfair  
advantage over Foo regarding the data (since Foo, having contributed  
the data, can do anything they want with the data anyway)?

Bye
Frederik
>

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