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

[Peter Miller]

On 18 Aug 2009, at 10:30, Tom Hughes wrote:

> On 18/08/09 09:27, Peter Miller wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> The Data Working Group can do things, like sending email direct to the
> user from somebody "official" (ie the foundation) that ordinary users
> are not able to do. Hopefully people will be more likely to respond to
> such communication to explain what they are doing which can help
> determine whether there is in fact a problem with the data.

But surely that is no reason not to set up community structures to  
deal with local vandalism at a local level where that can be achieved  
and to only escalate the most serious instances to the working group.  
As the OSM Dataset gets more complete and more accurate vandalism is  
going to become more of an issue and disruptive to the integrity of  
the project even if it is minor in nature, let alone what a serious  
vandal could do.

My immediate concern of course is Liam123 and his 'contributions' in  
the UK and elsewhere. I really don't believe that an official email to  
him will do any good and anyway it won't resolve the edits he has  
already made - the damage done to date mainly still exists and we need  
a lot of new technology to deal with it and I don't hear people  
talking about solutions.

Surely an talk-vandalism email list is the way to get some energy into  
this process in an inclusive sort of way.



Regards,


Peter

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