[Osmf-talk] Taking a stand against EU directive "Copyright in the Digital Single Market" (upload filters etc.)

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

Hi,

I read your e-mail and some materials on the websites which URLs you 
provided.

I still have questions. With what material specifically at the OSM map 
there could be a copyright issue? With digitalizing satellite imagery, 
which exists only at say Google Map as used to happen some years ago? 
When people mapped a village using Google satellite imagery and had to 
delete it later?

Or Carto icons? Like some symbol could be copyrighted? Or just more 
diverse automated legal claims with not enough volunteers to handle 
them? Or something completely different, but of what I am unaware?

Best regards,
Oleksiy


On 06.09.18 22:47, Michael Reichert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on 12 September, the plenary of the European Parliament will vote on the
> new EU directive "Copyright in the Digital Single Market". The directive
> will introduce upload filters requiring internet platforms to scan
> contributions of their users for potential copyright violations
> automatically. The original proposal has passed the Committee on Legal
> Affairs on 20 June and failed in the plenary vote a few days later. If
> the plenary accepts the slightly modified proposal on 12 September, the
> trialogue negotiations between the European Parliament, the European
> Commission and the Council of the European Union will start. See also
> https://saveyourinternet.eu/ for more information in your language.
>
> The press reported that there is some kind of exception for Wikipedia,
> open source software development platforms and online marketplaces.
> However, OpenStreetMap data is not only used by the non-profit
> OpenStreetMap Foundation but also by various other data consumers, most
> of them for-profit businesses.
>
> FOSSGIS e.V., the OSMF local chapter in Germany, takes a stand
> against it by responding to every tenth tile requests to
> tile.openstreetmap.de with a special black error tile.
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Savetheinternet.svg
>
> See it in action on any page using our tile server, e.g.
> https://www.openstreetmap.de/karte.html
>
> The tiles are distributed randomly over the map.
>
>
> *Why does this affect the OSMF?*
> The UK will leave the European Union but it is likely that many EU rules
> will nonetheless apply in the UK as well, depending on how the
> negotiations continue.
>
>
> *What should the OSMF do?*
> I myself think that the OSMF should show at least a banner on
> openstreetmap.org instead of the usual conference banners – ideally
> ignoring cookie settings and showing it to every visitor for about three
> days.
>
>
> *What more could the OSMF do?*
> The OSMF could go even further and answer one of ten requests to its
> European (or all) tile caches with a black or grey error tile showing a
> short URL of a page containing more information about the bad side of
> upload filters.
>
>
> *What could other local chapters and operators of free to use tile
> servers in Europe do?*
> They could join the initiative of FOSSGIS and also show error tiles.
>
> Our error tile can be found at:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Savetheinternet.png
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Savetheinternet.svg
>
> Our special page about the black tiles is
> https://www.openstreetmap.de/uf/ (only in German but an automatic
> translation will help to understand the structure)
>
>
> *The downside*
> I don't want to keep the downside secret as it has already been
> discussed on the German OSM forum. Showing black tiles on third-party
> websites can be perceived by their operators as an intervention into
> their website. They will not like it when the always neutral, reliable
> and free of charge tile provider inserts political statements into their
> site. However, they should keep in mind that they use a free service and
> that we have to defend our project and our idea of a free and open
> collaborative map to be able to provide this service in future. Given
> that there are multiple tile providers and the tile server of FOSSGIS
> e.V. uses an open source map style, the board of FOSSGIS e.V. decided to
> show the black tiles even if it could drive away some users.
>
> On the other hand, any banner can be hidden by adblockers, a problem we
> already face with our promotional banners for conferences and donation
> drives on openstreetmap.org. If a tile server responds with an
> "advertisement", the ad blocker has no chance to replace it with a real
> map. It can only hide it and leave a grey/rose gap.
>
>
> *The technical part*
> The German tile server uses Apache and mod_tile without an additional
> cache server like Squid or Varnish to deliver its tiles. It is possible
> to answer randomly every n-th request with this black tile. This means,
> reloading the a page might result in different tiles being replaced by
> the error tile.
>
> If you use mod_tile, add following to your VirtualHost configuration
> before any mod_tile related statements:
>
>
>      RewriteEngine on
>      RewriteMap filtered "rnd:/etc/apache2/filtered.txt"
>      RewriteCond "${filtered:0}" "1"
>      RewriteRule "^/(.*)(\d).png" "/saveyourinternet.png" [PT]
>
> /etc/apache2/filtered.txt has following content:
>
> 0 0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1
>
> The space as second character is correct. The number of zeros determines
> the probability to receive a normal tile.
>
> saveyourinternet.png has to be located in the DocumentRoot of the
> virtual host.
>
> Best regards
>
> Michael (Nakaner)
> FOSSGIS e.V. – OpenStreetMap Deutschland
>
>
>
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