[OSM-legal-talk] Nearmap vs CTs: any progress?

[Ed Avis]

Anthony <osm at ...> writes:

>>However, this part remains: "Subject to Section 3 and 4 below, You
>>hereby grant to OSMF and any party that receives Your Contents a
>>worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable licence
>>to do any act that is restricted by copyright..."
>>
>>As Ben has pointed out, this section retains the assumption made
>>previously: that you have the right to grant these rights.
>
>Along with other points that I have already pointed out, I'll note
>that the grant is with respect to Your Contents, not with respect to
>Other People's Contents.
 
Yes, but if Your Contents are partly derived from Other People's Stuff, so that
Other People hold some rights in them too...  At any rate it's not crystal clear,
and it needs to be.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>