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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/2/7 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>:
> Liz,
>
>> 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.
>
> But in this case, as related by Albertas, the person who supposedly
> imported copyrighted material has, after being challenged, repeatedly
> created new accounts to upload data.
>
> It must be assumed that the person has the technical means to do this in
> an automated fashion.
>
> This means that suspending an account and/or deleting data of
> questionable provenance would not help. It would help in the sense of
> demonstrating that we try to do something (so if Tele Atlas complain we
> can at least say "but we're trying"), but it would not help to actually
> protect us.
>
> It will be very difficult to create technical measures to make us immune
> against such acts; and many potential measures fall into the category of
> we-do-not-want-to-go-there-nannyism and create undesirable barriers of
> entry for new users. We have to be quite careful.
>

if this goes on, we could try to legally enforce prevention ourself,
as this behavour violates our own terms and conditions (do not copy
other maps).

Martin