[OSM-talk-be] Copyright violation on massively distributed flyers

[Pieter-Jan Pauwels]

Hi Ruben, 

Don’t get me wrong, I totally agree with your email, only your sentence about the attribution requirement being deliberately neglected seems way off. I have a non-print marketing background and I can tell you nobody knows the anything about licenses in re-using materials (except contributors and legal counselors). I’ve been evangelising open licenses for over 2 years now and I still get the same reaction from high level marketeers to uni students: “What do you mean we can use Images on Google Images? Then why would they make them available in the first place?”  And that’s just for images, let alone, data or virtual maps. 

So yes contact them, but don’t start with going in offensive mode by tapping them on the fingers. Awareness and open discussions bring in more souls to the (l)(r)ight side. 
Maybe we should consider more info on http://osm.be/nl/usage <http://osm.be/nl/usage> about how the license applies when graphically copying or screenshotting the map, because now it’s very data focused, no? 

Don’t let this stop you from sharing such examples though. The more we know how maps are reused and misused, the better we can handle it in the future.

Kind regards,
Pieter-Jan Pauwels
	
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> On 03 Aug 2016, at 15:30, Ruben Maes <ruben at janmaes.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a feeling that they were actually aware of the attribution requirement, but deliberately didn't do it because it's difficult for us to act on.

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