[Osmf-talk] Can we untick the Public domain checkbox from our initial choice done during OSM sign up?

[Christoph Hormann]

On Thursday 03 October 2019, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
> The difference may be the contract. Google prohibits certain uses in
> their terms of service (your contract with them), so if you access
> through their service, you agree to be bound by their ToS, hence you
> cannot look just at intellectual property rights if you want to find
> out what you can do with their product.

Yes, of course - and the OSMF could try to follow the same route and
impose ToS on API and planet downloads that restrict things independent
of the limits of copyright and database law.

But that is of course a whole other story unrelated to the question of
copyright and database rights.

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Christoph Hormann
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