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

[SteveC]

Albertas - we will look urgently at this.


On 7 Feb 2009, at 12:57, Liz wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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Best

Steve