[OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

[Michael Collinson]

On 07/02/2012 08:36, Graham Jones wrote:
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> On 7 February 2012 05:34, Simone Cortesi <simone at cortesi.com 
> <mailto:simone at cortesi.com>> wrote:
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>     Our default action should be: if somebody doesn't answer, then
>     relicence....
>
> I completely agree - we should assume that no response is equivalent 
> to consent - if they complain about this action we can delete their 
> data when they show enough interest to actually decline the 
> licence/terms. Qui tacet consentire.

There is a part of me that would love to agree, but the fact is that for 
better or worse we earlier asked them if we could publish their 
contributions under CC-BY-SA and only under CC-BY-SA.  Another 
consideration for continuing mappers is that if you weaken the rights of 
folks who have not responded, you weaken your own hold over keeping the 
our license a free and open license over the next 100 years or so while 
your personal copyright remains active. Of the two, I prefer to go 
remapping.

As an aside, the problem of not being able to contact authors is well 
known [1] and an evolving area of law [2] [3] if you are interested.  
Wikipedia has been lobbying in the EU on the matter. Once the license 
change is over, I look forward to working with them on matters like this 
to push forward the frontiers of Open IP.

Mike


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_works
[2] http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/
[3] http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/orphan_works_en.htm

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