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

[Mike Dupont]

well the flash image moves around and shows more data. but ok. maybe they
are not tiles, but one tile. anyway..

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> 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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