[OSM-legal-talk] openstreetmap in some flash advertising

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Mike Dupont wrote:
> I just saw this , very interesting.
> http://osmopenlayers.blogspot.com/2010/11/httpmobilespyde-is-using-unattributed.html 
> 
> Mobile Spy and Akamai are using unattributed osm tiles in flash ads.

More precisely, "Mobile Spy is using a single image of ca. 250x100 
pixels that looks like it might come from OpenStreetMap in an advert". I 
don't see evidence for the plural but maybe I'm just not looking hard 
enough.

Akamai (and edgesuite.net) are just content delivery networks; they are 
"using" that image in the same fashion as blogspot.com are "using" it 
after you created the page you have linked to above ;)

Legally they might have to attribute OSM but I'm really thankful they 
don't, because what they have to sell is some shady software that claims 
to be able to "locate" people when in reality it's just an x-ray 
pornocam style rip-off and I would't want to see OSM mentioned in that 
context.

Bye
Frederik

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