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

[Peter Miller]

On 7 Feb 2009, at 21:09, SteveC wrote:

> Albertas - we will look urgently at this.
>
>

Thanks. Please also follow up the report by Sarah Manley from CM that  
the Belarus import is suspect. I forwarded her email from talk to  
legal-talk on the 14th Jan, but am not aware that any action has been  
taken.

This is not something that the community can do without clear co- 
ordination coming from somewhere, probably from the foundation.


Regards,


Peter


Here is a copy of the post on talk/legal talk on the 13th/14th Jan.

 > From: Sarah Manley <sarah at cloudmade.com>
 > Date: 13 January 2009 21:14:47 GMT
 > To: talk at openstreetmap.org
 > Subject: [Spam] [OSM-talk] data import in Belarus
 >
 > Dear All,
 >
 > I am writing on behalf of someone I met at a LUG meeting I spoke at
 > who is concerned that the data imported for Belarus has a copyright
 > attached to it.
 > I sent him this link:
 > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Belarus#OpenStreetMap_.D0.91.D0.B5.D0.BB.D0.B0.D1.80.D1.83.D1.81.D1.8C_.2F_OpenStreetMap_Belarus
 >
 > Below here is his response:
 > "Copyrights law of Belarus
 > (http://www.law.by/work/EnglPortal.nsf/6e1a652fbefce34ac2256d910056d559/7e18184c14ae0e6bc2256dec0042400c?OpenDocument
 > )
 > list maps and databases as object of copyrights (article 7) and
 > doesn't exempt government works of such nature (article 8). I think
 > will be good idea if OpenStreetMap will require official
 > confirmationsin such exports since (AFAIK) public domain status of
 > US federal
 > government is exception, not a rule."
 >

Thanks. I suggest we carry on the discuss on this one on legal-talk -
I am forwarding it there.


Regards,


Peter
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2009-January/001830.html



> 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
>
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