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

[Dave Stubbs]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Peter Miller<peter.miller at itoworld.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Sure, and that's the explicit requirement before forwarding vandalism cases.

Most of the people in this conversation were talking about the OP
which was not vandalism -- it was copyright infringement.
These are not the same things.

Dave