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

[Simon Poole]

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributory_copyright_infringement
for why the shops might not be off the hook.

In any case, yes there is some ambiguity in the current version of the 
ODbL in respect to the requirements on downstream users of Produced
Works and if a publisher of a Produced Work has to require (that is by a
licence or ToU) that the ODbL mandated attribution is maintained
downstream or not.

Simon

Am 01.11.2019 um 10:35 schrieb Jeffrey Friedl via osmf-talk:
>> 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
>
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