Gervase Markham <gerv-gm...@...> writes: >From the Contributor Terms: > >"You hereby grant to OSMF and any party that receives Your Contents a >worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable license >to do any act that is restricted by copyright over anything within the >Contents, whether in the original medium or any other." > >If the OSMF has the right to do "any act that is restricted by >copyright" then they effectively have a joint copyright ownership. >Except perhaps that they can't sue for copyright violation, although (as >the article notes) that's not usually a big factor.
That is an interesting point. If map data is covered by copyright, then without copyright assignment the ability of the OSMF to enforce share-alike is weakened. On the other hand, if map data is not covered by copyright, then the assignment of copyright licence to the OSMF is not necessary. Either way, having a blanket grant-of-licence in the contributor terms without actually assigning the copyright seems a suboptimal choice. -- Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
