[OSM-legal-talk] compatibility with CC licenses

[Rob Myers]

John Wilbanks wrote:

> (although I find the idea that freedom can only come from the 
> barrel of a license deeply depressing).

That's CC Zero out of the running then.

> If Big Company decides to run a mechanical turk contest on Amazon to 
> extract facts from your DB one at a time, do they violate the license 
> without having ever signed it - can they possibly be bound by it if they
> haven't signed it, clicked ok on a digital box etc? And at what point 
> does the individual person working in the turk contest infringe - 5 
> facts, 10 facts, 100 facts? And who would you sue in the event you 
> wanted to take it to court?

This looks like a problem with using contract law rather than licence law.

And yes I'm curious about this as well.

- Rob.

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