[OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 6:19 PM Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:

> For those unfamiliar with it, the OSM US' Slack instance has a
> "feed-changeset-comments" channel which shows new changeset discussion
> comments shortly after they are added.  There are lots of other ways of
> getting at that data as well of course - including on osm.org itself.
>

To provide some context, this Slack channel is simply forwarding the
contents of an Atom feed generated by Pascal Neis here:
http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussions?c=United States

IANAL, but from an intellectual property point of view, I think Pascal
creating RSS/Atom feeds of changeset comments per country falls under fair
use/fair dealing. And there is a whole ecosystem of tools that process and
consume RSS/Atom feeds, one of which is an integration in Slack was setup
by someone so that comments on changesets in the United States are more
visible to the people who are in the OSM US Slack.

~Eugene
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