[OSM-legal-talk] A simplification of the agreement on the signup page.

[Russ Nelson]

On Mar 1, 2009, at 12:46 PM, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:

> Russ Nelson schrieb:
>> [...], or your email address
>> stops working, you waive all right to ownership of your edits.
>
> Probably about as legally binding as posting a note on the site that
> says "By reading this you agree to sacrifice your firstborn to the  
> OSMF".

Nothing is perfect, nothing is absolute.  You could have an airplane  
crash on your house and kill you in your sleep.  That is no reason to  
fail to make plans for tomorrow, or to take clear steps towards  
solving a problem.  Yes, it probably has problems under copyright laws  
which recognize inalienable authorship rights, but the author would  
have to show or prove authorship.  It's a reasonable standard to  
require ownership of an email address to prove ownership of the  
copyrighted work.  In order to lose your ownership rights under this  
standard, you would have to 1) forget your password AND 2) not be able  
to receive email at the email address.  Yes, somebody could come along  
later and propose a different standard.

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