[OSM-talk] How to handle copyright status of notes information.

[Michael Collinson]

On 03/05/2014 17:26, colliar wrote:
> How do you handle the copyright status on information from notes ?
>
> I often find useful information like opening_hours and new openings of
> shops/amenities in notes but how do I know if the anonymous user did add
> this information from survey or legal sources ?
>
> cu colliar
That's an interesting question.  My first reaction would be to accept it 
as made in good faith provided that there was nothing obvious like a 
huge list in a systematic format.

The OpenStreetMap Foundation have signed up the the US Digital Millenium 
Copyright Act and so have a fairly painless procedure to report and 
remove individual items should they creep through.

If anyone working on the notes software and screens is reading this, I 
suggest changing the sentence "(Please don't enter personal information 
here.)" to "(Please don't enter personal information or information from 
copyrighted maps or directory listings here.)"

Mike