[OSM-legal-talk] using OSM on TV

[Richard Weait]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 5:36 AM,  <visiontv at petml.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to determine what is required of my company with regard to
> the on-air broadcast of OSM data. I sell a product used in TV news. Part
> of my product consists of maps. Sometimes my maps use OSM data. Not
> always, in fact most clients are not using OSM data. Either way, for the
> ones that do I need to know what is required. I can't seem to find the
> requirements by searching the archives or reading the website. I see
> lots of opinions and suggestions but no hard decisions. I will be adding
> an OSM link in my application's "acknowledgments" section stating this
> app may make use of OSM data, a link to the web site, etc. However, I
> simply can't guarantee that my customers will attribute OSM during the
> broadcast. Furthermore, I don't see anywhere that describes exactly what
> my obligations are. Like I said previously, lots of opinions and
> suggestions but no hard requirement. Seems like there is a lot of wiggle
> room if someone simply did not want to attribute OSM in any way.
>
> Can someone comment and/or correct me if I'm wrong? Can anyone
> definitively state what is required with respect to OSM attribution for
> use in a TV broadcast?
>
> I will be doing the following:
> * letting my customers know we use OSM data
> * added the usual OSM acknowledgment in my application
> * add some sort of acknowledgment on my website that my application may
> make use of OSM data

OpenStreetMap does not have concrete guidance for you yet.  I wish
that we did.  Please consider

"Such credit may be implemented in any reasonable manner; provided,
however, that in the case of a Derivative Work or Collective Work, at
a minimum such credit will appear where any other comparable
authorship credit appears and in a manner at least as prominent as
such other comparable authorship credit"

So, if you or the broadcaster add a watermark to the video, and
OpenStreetMap and cc watermark should be added.  This is best because
the attribution and license will stay with the clip if it is removed
from the rest of the broadcast.  By all rights this clip should be
permitted to be removed from the broadcast and distributed further as
ccbysa.

Less desirable, because it loses immediacy and could be separated from
the work, would be a credit roll at the show end. Again, let
reasonable and similar prominence be your guide. If you get XL font
size and n seconds on screen, so does OSM / CC so something like:

Map segment by
Vision TV (c) 2010

Maps and data
ccbysa OpenStreetMap
and contributors

I like the idea of OSM maps used in broadcasts.  Thanks for
recognizing that the OSM and CC attribution are your obligation.

The license extract quoted above is from the text of ccbysa, section
4c http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode

"If you distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly
digitally perform the Work or any Derivative Works or Collective
Works, You must keep intact all copyright notices for the Work and
give the Original Author credit reasonable to the medium or means You
are utilizing by conveying the name (or pseudonym if applicable) of
the Original Author if supplied; the title of the Work if supplied; to
the extent reasonably practicable, the Uniform Resource Identifier, if
any, that Licensor specifies to be associated with the Work, unless
such URI does not refer to the copyright notice or licensing
information for the Work; and in the case of a Derivative Work, a
credit identifying the use of the Work in the Derivative Work (e.g.,
"French translation of the Work by Original Author," or "Screenplay
based on original Work by Original Author"). Such credit may be
implemented in any reasonable manner; provided, however, that in the
case of a Derivative Work or Collective Work, at a minimum such credit
will appear where any other comparable authorship credit appears and
in a manner at least as prominent as such other comparable authorship
credit. "