[OSM-legal-talk] I am not going to remove any old node in my hometown

[Simon Poole]

I think you may have misunderstood the whole point of the exercise.

While there may be protectable IP in individual contributions depending 
on jurisdiction, maybe even joint rights in the whole database and we 
can be fairly sure that the OSM DB would lead to rights wrt EU DB 
protection legislation (we're just not quite sure who owned them 
pre-CTs), we are going through this process because the OSMF promised 
that it would not continue to distribute individual contributions 
against the mappers will (example at hand ABS2006 import in Australia).

How much finesse we use to determine exactly what gets deleted and what 
not is being discussed as you know, but the basic principle is not being 
questioned and insofar any protest and outcry based on ones personal 
interpretation of IPR is just misguided.

IMHO

Simon


Am 12.12.2011 14:58, schrieb FK270673 at fantasymail.de:
> After watching the License Change View on OSM Inspector, I have decided not to change any of the few red dots and ways marked in the OSM inspector. Some ways have one old version by an anonymous or undecided author and up to seven versions by me. That's enough to keep them and if you want to delete MY edits even though I have agreed to the CT, you may do that, but remapping them would ignore my editing history. As I have contributed about 81% of all nodes in my hometown area, it's rather me who has the moral and legal right to decide what may be kept or not, not the right of a single-node mapper who draw two ways in 2007.
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> There is only one correct location for an intersection and if another maspper has already occupied this location with his node, there is no sensible reason to recreate it on the same location. There is no copyright on single nodes, there is no copyright on moved nodes and there is no copyright on street names that have already passed the comparison with municipal government's street list. As I have contributed about 81% of all nodes in my hometown area, it's rather me who has the predominant copyright on this map and not the less-than-1% one-node contributors.
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> Some of the marked edits are mechanical work requiring neither local knowledge nor genius: correcting spelling mistakes (e.g. Grade2>grade2), debugging keepright fixmes, deleting created_by, etc.
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> There should be a functionality to mark their nodes and ways as checked, verified and absolutely insignificant concerning copyright. There is absolutely no case in history where a one-node mapper, even an anonymous one-node mapper, was able to claim a copyright based on his less-than-1% contribution.
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> If you want to delete or vandalize the whole map just for pleasing a non-responding anonymous single-node contributor while destroying the work of a 150,000-node contributor, you may do that. I am not going to replace any of the vandalized nodes. As they are often located on important trunk roads, sometimes even on intersections, their removal might prevent efficient routing for many years.
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> Maybe the license change is just a sociological experiment (like the Milgram experiment) to check how stupid people are if they are told to remap existing nodes.
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> Cheers!