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

Nuno Caldeira nunocapelocaldeira at gmail.com
Thu Oct 31 21:48:20 UTC 2019


So technically, i can extract frames of a movie at any ammount i want 
and then mix then to recreate a movie. doesn't make sense.

Às 17:56 de 31/10/2019, Kathleen Lu escreveu:
> Nuno, this isn't about what the license allows, it's about the law. 
> You can't re-write the law. What the law allows it would allow even if 
> there was no license at all.
> And I would also note that, frankly, the EU is the outlier in this 
> respect in having database protections at all (and I would not say 
> that even EU database protections would prohibit as small an excerpt 
> as a screenshot, though "substantial" is undefined in the Directive). 
> The majority of the world does not have database protections, so if 
> any analogy is fair, it's a bit of the reverse, with the EU being a 
> "database haven".
>
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 10:37 AM Nuno Caldeira 
> <nunocapelocaldeira at gmail.com <mailto:nunocapelocaldeira at gmail.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On Thu, 31 Oct 2019, 17:29 Kathleen Lu, <kathleen.lu at mapbox.com
>     <mailto:kathleen.lu at mapbox.com>> wrote:
>
>         I'm curious as to the reason for your doubts, Nuno. Are you
>         aware of case law to the contrary?
>
>
>     I'm just surprised we adopted a license that seems to be useless
>     in USA, according to corporate interpretation of the license even
>     if it's for commercial purposes. Seems like we have a public
>     domain license after all.
>     Thank god these companies are not Corporate members of OSMF, don't
>     need to give a good example and neither provide worldwide services.
>     Reminds me of cruise ship registrations or tax heavens. Seem we
>     also have license heavens.
>
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