[OSM-talk] a license violation in the new zealand herald?

[Jochen Topf]

Hi!

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 03:48:40PM +1200, Robin Paulson wrote:
> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 15:48:40 +1200
> From: Robin Paulson <robin at bumblepuppy.org>
> To: OSM Talk <talk at openstreetmap.org>
> Subject: [OSM-talk] a license violation in the new zealand herald?
> 
> i'm  not one hundred percent, but this looks a lot like a static
> image taken of osm. the area is the cook strait, between the two
> biggest islands of new zealand. the only attribution on the image is
> to "Geonet", which I presume is some organisation which studies
> earthquakes (for those not in the know, new zealand has had a few
> small shakes in the last week or so).
> 
> http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10904806
> 
> as it's a tiny amount, for news purposes, is there any exemption
> from showing the source?
> 
> suggestions requested.

They quote "Geonet" as their source. A search for "Geonet" finds
"geonet.org.nz" as the Website. They use OSM and attribute it properly (small
"Copyright" link under map that pops up more information). (They also
say "Tiles courtesy of MapQuest", but thats not the case. The tile style is
obviously the standard OSM style and they serve them from their own server
which seems to have pre-computed tiles for NZ.) So Geonet is okay.

As for the use by NZHerald I would think this falls under "fair use".

Jochen
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