[OSM-talk] copyright problem with data copied from a map

[Renaud MICHEL]

Hello

Two weeks ago, I found problem in Dison, Belgium, see here
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.6044&lon=5.8522&zoom=14
At that moment, the motorway had been shifted north-west by user Neo while 
adding other roads.
I moved it back to correspond to GPS traces and messaged Neo about the 
problem.

He did some more edits, see http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Neo/edits and 
that's when I realised that he was actually copying an actual map. He 
actually put the bounding box of his map 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/38566375

He confirmed a week later that he was really copying a map he scanned and 
loaded in JOSM (not rectifying it, so the shifted roads).
He was obviously not aware of the copyright problem as he asked me, in the 
same message, if he could somehow copy the map from his tomtom.

I replied one week ago explaining why he must not do that and asking him to 
remove all the edits he made based on that map, but had no more answer so 
far.
So now I'm thinking about removing those edits myself, but am not sure 
what's the best way to do so.

I don't know if the changeset can be reverted, as there are many of them, 
and I also did some edits there (changeset #1997354 #2005715 #2046924 a 
least) before knowing of the copyright problem.

Any advice?
I think I'm going to remove all this "by hand" with JOSM.
But the ways will still be present in the DB with the history. Can we do 
something about this?

cheers
-- 
Renaud Michel