[OSM-legal-talk] Starting Repository For Public Domain OSM Data

[Simon Ward]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 01:34:23PM +1100, Joseph Gentle wrote:
> > I don't either. But trying to force *anything* onto your users means
> > that you cannot let go of the data - you're then automatically entering
> > this whole license swamp because where you make demands you also need a
> > stick to enforce them:
> 
> I am not a lawyer; but as I understand it moral rights need not be
> mentioned in a license. They are distinct from copyright. You do not
> need your own stick.

Moral rights are more to protect the author’s original link to the work.
That is (depending on copyright licence) you may redistribute the work,
but the original author has the right to be identified as the author.
If you modify the work in some way and it is detrimental to the author
(most likely the author would determine this) then they may complain.

In the UK you must claim moral rights for them to be effective, they
are not default.  I don’t know about other countries.  Moral rights also
don’t apply in some circumstances, incuding a “collective work of
reference” which may apply to OSM.

Simon
-- 
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
simple system that works.—John Gall
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