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

[Christoph Hormann]

On Friday 07 September 2018, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote:
> [...]
>
> 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?

Even if you assume the OSMF will fall under some exception of the 
directive (which i am not sure about) large parts of the OSM community 
and the OSM ecosystem definitely do not.  So every OSM data user and 
everyone who provides a communication service, blog or whatever in the 
EU would have to deal with this.

And even if there are exceptions in the directive that might exclude a 
service provider to install filtering infrastructure the directive 
would create a lot of legal uncertainty and contraints in which a 
service provider would need to abide by.

The irony of the whole thing is that it is fairly ludicrous as a measure 
to reduce copyright violations because the vast majority (and 
especially the most economically relevant) of actual copyright 
violations are not by individuals but by institutions and corporations.

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/