[OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Attribution guideline status update

Nuno Caldeira nunocapelocaldeira at gmail.com
Thu Oct 31 21:47:19 UTC 2019


Às 13:54 de 31/10/2019, Robert Kaiser escreveu:
>
> That "fair use" argument is actually pretty interesting and something 
> that people often may not think about. IANAL, but I would guess, for 
> example, that taking a screenshot of your app or website, which 
> includes a map and also does include attribution, and then crop it and 
> cut away the attribution incidentally, and use the result as a 
> promotional image on social media, may be a case where it would be 
> considered "fair use" and therefore attribution claims may never be 
> successful due to this exception from copyright law. The specific case 
> is just a guess, but things like that should be taken into account 
> when we go out and demand attribution on every little tidbit of 
> OSM-based imagery we see floating around...
There's not one screenshot in that article and certainly more than one 
in all that profile. So let's be reasonable and not point exceptions 
from common practice by a Corporate Member of OSMF, that should be the 
first to give the example.



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