[OSM-legal-talk] Chart in OSM wiki to help with common licensing of image uploads

[Simon Poole]

Am 21.02.2022 um 07:29 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny via legal-talk:
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> I was worried about touching this, as no matter how I read
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing_Maps#Terms.2C_Clarifications
> I do not see how it can be constructed to allow use on OSM Wiki
> "imited solely to aerial imagery use in a non-commercial online editor
> application of OpenStreetMap"
>
> And if it can be argued to be allowed as fair use - is it OK to upload 
> also Google Maps
> aerial/maps/street view etc?

We don't really need to examine this as the extensive fair use 
definition in the US doesn't really have any counter part in other 
legislations that are equally broad.

>     - the section on screenshots would seem to be postulating rights
>     by the app authors in the images that don't actually exist (a
>     screenshot of JOSM is not licensed on GPL terms IMHO),
>
> Then how JOSM screenshot is licensed?

I would conservatively assume that of the imagery / data displayed.

Simon

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