[Talk-GB] Licensability of an employee's work

[Mateusz Konieczny]

21 Oct 2019, 13:47 by forums at david-woolley.me.uk:

> I meant you should use an account that clearly belongs to the company. I guess you could have an account for each relevant employee, but that will cause problems when an employee changes job, either internally, or to another employer.
>
One can operate multiple accounts. I would say that it is preferable to have separate accounts
for bot edits, paid edits and hobby edits.

And single account for a company is a communication nightmare.

>
> Definitely do not use the same account to submit personal contributions and company ones.
>
>
> On 21/10/2019 12:37, Edward Bainton wrote:
>
>> Thanks, David.
>>
>> Discussion ongoing on the legal list, but FYI from Frederick Ramm, who opines:
>>
>>  > PS: I would strongly advise against using a "corporate account" that
>>  > groups the activities of many individuals as it makes communication
>>  > between the group/company members and other members difficult, and good
>>  > communication is a cornerstone of every successful organised editing
>>  > activity.
>>
>> I don't know if that's precisely what you meant, but here for info (without judgment either way)
>>
>> Edward
>>
>> On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 20:08, David Woolley <forums at david-woolley.me.uk <mailto:forums at david-woolley.me.uk>> wrote:
>>
>>  On 18/10/2019 17:43, Edward Bainton wrote:
>>  > *If an employee edits the map in the course of their employment,
>>  has the
>>  > work been adequately licensed to OSM/the big wide Open?*
>>  >
>>
>>  I think it is true worldwide that employers have the copyright in work
>>  for hire, and only they can licence the use of their copyright.  If the
>>  map is being edited at the employers request, the employer should
>>  create
>>  an OSM account for such purposes.
>>
>>  In the UK, if you day job is producing copyrighted maps, you will
>>  almost
>>  certainly find that anything you attempt to do on OSM comes under the
>>  employer's copyright.  California, in the USA, is a notable
>>  exception to
>>  this.
>>
>>
>>  _______________________________________________
>>  Talk-GB mailing list
>>  Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org <mailto:Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org>
>>  https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
>>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Talk-GB mailing list
> Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/attachments/20191021/917e4b59/attachment.html>