[Osmf-talk] [OSM-talk] Attribution guideline status update
Nuno Caldeira
nunocapelocaldeira at gmail.com
Fri Nov 1 09:39:55 UTC 2019
Às 09:35 de 01/11/2019, Jeffrey Friedl escreveu:
>> 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
I think you need to read this to avoid making those statements
https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/index.html
You are comparing different things and that doesn't make sense at all
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