[OSM-legal-talk] Mass import of TeleAtlas data

[Liz]

On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Albertas Agejevas wrote:
> I am bringing this up in the public forum again as our correspondence
> with the OSMF secretary Andy Robinson appears to have no results.  On
> 7 October 2008 Andy informed me that OSMF was going to ask these
> 50-ish suspect users to provide proof that they are legitimate
> contributors and delete their data if no satisfactory response had
> been received in 7 days.  However, as you can see from my examples
> above, 4 months past the copied data is still in the database.

While we do hear that those on OSMF Board are very busy , I agree that this 
needs to be attended as a matter of urgency.

We should not take any risk with potentially copied material.
OSM needs a protocol in which suspect material is reported in a particular 
manner; contact is made with the mapper involved; a small time period is 
given for reply; all suspect material removed until resolution.

The presence of such a protocol would be of assistance in dealing with claimed 
copyright breaches.