[Osmf-talk] [OSM-talk] Attribution guideline status update

[Jeffrey Friedl]

> For ABC  I would not have chosen the term “require” from XYZ but they probably must make them aware 
> that in the product they are selling there are third party rights (OpenStreetMap’s copyright) which come 
> with certain obligations (ODbL).

In my example, OSM copyright doesn't apply to XYZ because it's simply not making a copy of OSM data.
 The ABC company is taking OSM data and making a copy (map tiles).  It's ABC that is serving the map tiles.
 It's ABC (and only ABC) that's actually accessing OSM data, so it's ABC (and only ABC) that has any
 copyright exposure.

It's as if I took your famous photograph and made a million prints and then advertised them for sale at stores throughout the world. The stores are not making copies of your photograph... they're just passing
along information about a product. It's me who would be on the hook for the copyright violation, because
 it's me who made the copies without right.

(As a photographer, I've paid attention to US law on copyright, but that lens may not really be appropriate
for this thread about attribution, so if I've gotten too far off topic, by all means just ignore it. :-D )

    Jeffrey