[OSM-legal-talk] Grant for usage of a google mapmaper users data to me

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

Listen guys,
this should all go into the FAQ.

I am having problems educating people about what OSM is, and how it
differs to GMM.

We need to state that we are not working for yahoo and why people
should prefer to license thier work to OSM over other sites.

We also have to tell people that google does not own thier
contributions, but the reference data that it is built upon.

I would like to have a standard waiver to allow people to license the
copyrights of thier GMM work to the OSM foundation.

It says in the GMM TOS that you have to have full ownership of the
data you enter in,
that means they cannot for example take data from OSM. It also means
they can license it to us.

This should be a standard contract that we can also use for other
wikimapia projects, and travel guides.

We should start collecting rights for this data, even if we cannot
import it directly and there are other issues, if we have at least
permission to use it it would be a big win as reference material.

thanks,
mike

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>> jamesmikedupont wrote:
>>> please correct me when I am wrong, that he as an author still owns
>>> his data and can license it to me.
>>
>> That needs someone from Google to answer, not us.
>
> Sure?
>
> I mean, would they not have to say very clearly if they wanted an
> exclusive license?
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
>
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