[OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: [OSM-talk] copyright problemwithdatacopiedfrom a map

[Peter Miller]

On 18 Aug 2009, at 11:35, Dave Stubbs wrote:

> 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.

I understand.  Lets keep this thread to copyright and pick up graffiti  
issues somewhere else

Fyi, If have given the vandalism page[1] a bit of a spring-clean. I  
have tried to reflect the intention of the wiki page and also this  
conversation but in a clearer way. Feel free to edit the page if I  
have missed something.

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vandalism


Regards,


Peter


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