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

[Marc Gemis]

I've send a couple of those letters and always tried to be friendly along
the lines of  "I'm a contributor, proud that you use our work, you forgot
attribution, maybe next release/publication include it, more info on
http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright"

regards

m



On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Pieter-Jan Pauwels <
pieter-jan.pauwels at okfn.org> wrote:

> 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 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
> Community Coordinator
> Open Knowledge Belgium
> m: +32 476 66 27 77 a: Sint-Salvatorstraat 18/101, 9000 Gent
> s: www.openknowledge.be e: pieterjan at openknowledge.be
>
>
>
> 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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