[OSM-legal-talk] attribution of data for use on TV

[Barnett, Phillip]

Hi,

Frederik Ramm schrieb:


>where a guy from a TV broadcaster inquired about using the Baghdad map
on-air.

That guy was me :-)
We never used the map in the end - we're a news broadcaster so didn't have time to thrash through the legalities on that day.

>I think I'm speaking for the majority of contributors when I say that
>having the credits in the credits roll at the end of a TV production is
>perfectly all right (that's the usual place for credits in that medium)
>but the responsiblity rests with you, or the broadcaster, in the end.

As a further datum point, the map generation system we use at the moment, Curious maps from Viz systems (http://www.vizrt.com/products/article231.ece) is pretty standard in broadcasting, and uses datasets from a variety of sources, public domain and private. USGS and NASA for long range views, Microsoft Virtual Earth for close-ups. In this case, the Virtual Earth logo is displayed reasonably prominently onscreen, overlaying the graphics, rather than in the credits at the end of the program. Nobody seems bothered about that as a requirement. ie, it doesn't annoy anybody, so it seems fair to expect similar prominence for OSM data.

Although it's just occurred to me that Microsoft license their data from someone else (TeleAtlas?) so I'm surprised they get the onscreen credit, rather than the original supplier.

Regards

Phillip





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