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

[Michael Reichert]

Hi,

Am 07.09.18 um 10:37 schrieb Oleksiy Muzalyev:
> 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?

The data contributions are the problem. There are a few million OSM
accounts who can (some do) contribute to the database. Their changes go
into production immediately. OSM distributes that data.

The issue is that we would have to scan all changesets for *potential*
copyright violations. It is not feasible to do that manually. It would
lead to a map which is not worth to contribute to because your change
requests won't get reviewed and applied. If the filtering would happen
automatically, we would have to develop such a filter (needs time/money)
and it would catch to much changesets. If it catches to much changesets,
contributors would get frustrated and loose their interest in OSM – the
slowly approaching end of this project. In addition, our map data is
similar to other maps which also want to be accurate. How can a filter
distinguish that from a copyright violation?

Best regards

Michael

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