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

[Peter Miller]

On 19 Sep 2009, at 04:38, Paul Johnson wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 23:19 -0500,
> telegee at hushmail.com wrote:
>
>> My question is what type of attribution is appropriate? I have no
>> problem informing my end-users where I get the data. More than
>> happy to do that. However, do I need to attribute while the
>> application is used on-air? Screen real estate is precious on a TV
>> screen. Plus, some clients are un-easy about attribution during the
>> broadcast. Attributing during the credits roll at the end of the
>> broadcast would be doable I suppose. Anyway, I want to do what is
>> right here. So, do I simply attribute in the app and let my TV
>> users know I'm using OpenStreetMap data OR do I need to attribute
>> on-air? I could easily add an OpenStreetMap attribution in the
>> splash screen and about box.
>
> I've noticed almost all the local broadcasters use Google Earth for
> this, and display a small, translucent Google logo in the corner of  
> the
> map view.  I imagine a little "osm.org" in the corner similar to
> Google's attribution would work for that format.

That seems to be a good idea. We have a trade-marked logo - possibly  
that would be useful. I know it isn't a URL but might be more  
identifiable and 'reasonable' for the medium. Mention on the website  
associated with a program is another option that has been proposed.

We do have this situation described as a 'use case' for the new  
license and the recommendation against the use case is to create a  
community guideline for it - possibly we have just done so!
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_Licence/Use_Cases

I certainly don't see anyone who makes and effort and does something  
reasonable in the circumstances getting criticised.


Regards,


Peter

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