[OSM-talk] Use of OSM data without attribution

Kathleen Lu kathleen.lu at mapbox.com
Fri Sep 11 19:47:02 UTC 2020


Assuming that we're taking about a physical object, I don't see how the
importer would have any obligations to do anything under copyright law,
database law, or contact law. That question preempts any ODbL analysis.



On Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 11:53 AM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> sent from a phone
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> On 11. Sep 2020, at 20:46, Kathleen Lu <kathleen.lu at mapbox.com> wrote:
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> If you put the attribution in Polish for a map meant for display in
> Poland, and then later the map is moved to London (say, to a museum),
> that's also fine because attribution was reasonable given the context.
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> it would be fine from the map maker‘s perspective, but not for the people
> that bring the map to London:
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> 4.3 Notice for using output (Contents). Creating and Using a Produced Work
> does not require the notice in Section 4.2. However, if you Publicly Use a
> Produced Work, You must include a notice associated with the Produced Work
> reasonably calculated to make any Person that uses, views, accesses,
> interacts with, or is otherwise exposed to the Produced Work aware that
> Content was obtained from the Database, Derivative Database, or the
> Database as part of a Collective Database, and that it is available under
> this License.
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> you could easily fix this by adding attribution in a locally standard
> language.
>
> Cheers Martin
>
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