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

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

OK. Thank you for the clarification.
It is a bad news.
brgds
O.

On 9/7/2018 11:44 AM, Michael Reichert wrote:
> 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
>