[OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: [OSM-talk] copyright problem with datacopiedfrom a map

[Peter Miller]

On 17 Aug 2009, at 19:13, SteveC wrote:

>
> On 17 Aug 2009, at 11:13, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
>> 2009/8/17 Peter Miller <peter.miller at itoworld.com>:
>>> You may wish to set up a Belgium equivalent for this page to act  
>>> as a
>>> record of such reverts. As you can see we have been having some
>>> problems of our own.
>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GB_revert_request_log
>>
>> actually I just fwded. the request as noone seems to care in talk
>
> I wouldn't say they don't care it's just it's a super busy list.

Should we have a talk-vandalism list then?

I am really conscious that the Lian123 'work' in Esssex/London/Kent/ 
Medway/Spain (Benidorm) and Germany that is listed on the 'GB-revert'  
page has compromised some very good work by other people and much of  
it is just sitting there waiting for tools good enough to dig it out  
again or at least point out which features have been subsequently  
edited without removing all the adjustments made by Liam123.

This is certainly not the list for the discussion, nor it talk-gb and  
'talk' itself is far to busy to have much sustained concentration on  
any one subject.

Andy mentions that copyright violation needs to go to the Data Working  
Group. Why? Sure the foundation needs a log of action of copyright  
violations, but I don't see why the requested reverts, or 'plastering  
over the cracks' can't be put onto a public list by a concerned member  
of the public and is then acted on by a suitably confident member of  
the community. The foundation then steps back and only gets directly  
involved in the bigger more problematic cases.

A talk vandalism list would also give much more visibility to the work  
that the Data Working Group is doing and indeed be that record that  
the foundation needs to prove that it responds to copyright violation.


Regards,




Peter



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> Steve
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