[OSM-talk] A reliable process for handling OSM license violations

Ed Avis eda at waniasset.com
Sun Mar 20 18:02:27 GMT 2011


Michael Collinson <mike <at> ayeltd.biz> writes:

>There are now at least 1 to 2 reports every month of folks not giving us 
>proper CC-BY-SA attribution.  These are mostly websites but include 
>poster advertising, a TV advertisement and a TV show.
> 
>We need a reliable process for dealing with these.

It might help if the person who chases the licence violation is one of the
copyright holders in the map displayed.  So if the case concerns a map of
Helsinki, pass it on to the Helsinki mappers - one of whom will see his or her
own work - and they will be able to say directly, you are infringing my
copyright.

A local mapper is also better placed to contact organizations in their native
language and to be familiar with local laws.

The LWG can co-ordinate the process - and contact directly when there is no local
angle involved, as with a map of the whole world - but I think there is some
value in decentralizing the licence checking, as is done for the mapping itself.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>




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