[OSM-legal-talk] OpenStreetMap Share Alike Produced Work issue
Edward Bainton
bainton.ete at gmail.com
Mon May 29 07:39:31 UTC 2023
I’m not an expert by any means so please weigh other views.
Academic work may benefit from a statutory licence or exemption. If that’s
the case you probably don’t need to read the OSM licence: statutory
exemptions (usually) shout louder in law than a licence granted by the
copyright owner (but check the text of the legislation, obviously).
If you will be publishing in the UK (my jurisdiction) you may be able to
use the exemption for criticism and review:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/30
It would depend on exactly how you’re using the traces, and from your
description I’m not more than 50pc confident that your work would be
covered: it seems you weren’t researching the utility of the traces
themselves, but rather using the traces to draw conclusions about other
things? If so, light rewrite may cure the problem: it’s relatively common
to see things rather unnaturally written as critique in order to make use
of these provisions.
Your own national jurisdiction or a different jurisdiction of publication
may grant you a statutory licence or exemption wider than the UK law: UK
copyright law is famously unfavourable to users and favourable to producers.
Hope this helps and I look forward to seeing others’ suggestions.
On Mon, 29 May 2023 at 07:38, Esin Ekizoglu <esinekizoglu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear OpenStreetMap Community,
>
> I am an urban researcher. I defended my PhD in 2022 in architecture and
> urban planning. I was interested in public GPS data traces coming from
> OpenStreetMap (https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces) . It was in one of
> the parts of my thesis. Now I have a possibility to publish it in the form
> of a book.
>
> I have a question about this work. Normally, from what I have read
> (Openstreetmap Licence), my productions belong to the status of "produced
> work". (because I analyze public GPS tracks by integrating other given data
> (like bike paths plans for future for example) not only from Openstreetmap
> but other open sources (with a work QGIS) The results are in the form of
> images (jpeg or png exported from QGIS) and relate to part of the
> publication. Is correctly referencing Openstreetmap and Contributors will
> be sufficient for the questions of the copyright?
> Another question: I saw that before ODbL there was CC BY-SA 2.0 until
> September 2012. Can't traces downloaded before this date be part of
> produced work? On the site it is marked as if the whole database was under
> the ODbL license. Does it refer to public gps data before September 2012? I
> will have to delete these traces of my research work since I cannot
> communicate them with the same license?
>
> I hope I am not supposed to share my book with the OpenStreetMap licence
> (share alike). It is impossible because the work is not entirely based on
> Openstreetmap...
> Thank you for your help...
>
> Best regards,
> Esin
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