[Osmf-talk] Treasurer's report for tomorrow's AGM

[Simon Poole]

Am 10.12.2016 um 21:34 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer:
> so ultimately OSMF aims at taking into account all local law from where their mappers come? 
> In case of the US that's because there are agreements between the US and the EU (safe harbor etc.), but if there weren't, how would the EU be able to impose their law on areas where they don't have jurisdiction? (I'm assuming here that OSMF doesn't have official representatives/subsidiaries working/having their seat on EU ground).
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You've got something conceptually wrong there. Naturally services and
products offered in a country are subject to its regulations, you don't
actually need to have a place of business in the country in question for
that to be the case (not exactly news since a couple of decades if we
are talking about Internet based services).  If that actually has any
consequences depends naturally on many things, but for example it would
not be a big surprise if one day OSM was blocked in one of the countries
that have strict regulations on mapping.

Simon

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