[OSM-talk] Illegal activity

[Pieren]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Jukka Rahkonen
<jukka.rahkonen at mmmtike.fi> wrote:
> There is an interesting blog post at http://www.systemed.net/blog/?p=100
> Tracing a copyrighted work, is not necessarily copying. See image at
> http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/new-imagebank/politics/0707_obamaputin.jpg
> Sure, the image itself is copyrighted. But if I say that "Hey, Obama and Putin
> have shaked hands" and then the photographer says that I am violating his
> copyrights I would not agree. Not even if I say that Obama is on the left and
> wears blue necktie, while Putin has a black one. I may be wrong, though, this is
> a strange world.
>

I don't like this thread because it could leave the impression that
tracing on orthophotos is not a copyright infringement. Unfortunately,
it is. People are mixing factual data visible on a picture like "the
forest is on the east of the lake" and georeferenced data based on
orthorectified photos. Reading a street sign on street view is on the
first category. Tracing on Google Maps or others is in the second
category and is copyright infringement. Point.
The question is, as usual, that the OSMF does not react and simply
expect that somebody else will do the job to clean-up the database.

Pieren