Guy Collins wrote: > Excuse this question if it has been answered in a wiki somewhere, but I > would very much like to know who owns copyright of any data contributed > under the Open Database Licence?
The brief answer is: the mapper does, just as they do under our current licence (CC-BY-SA). However, the new Contributor Terms include a "rights grant" to the OSM Foundation. In other words, you as the mapper own the rights in law, but you agree to let OSMF do certain things to your data. In particular, you agree to let OSMF distribute your data under ODbL, CC-BY-SA, or in the future, another licence chosen by a 2/3 majority of OSM contributors. I've said "rights" rather than "copyright". Depending on the data in question and the country in which you live, there may be copyright, or there may be European database rights (as per Ivan's posting), or there may be nothing at all. ODbL provides a level playing field by applying equally to copyright, database rights, and contract (i.e. "in return for me giving you this data you agree to..."). CC-BY-SA only applies to copyright, which works sometimes but by no means all of the time. Hope this helps and that you feel able to sign up to the CTs - it would be great to have the South-West Coast Path and your other work continue in OSM. :) cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/OSM-legal-talk-Who-owns-the-copyright-with-ODbl-tp6572910p6573991.html Sent from the Legal Talk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk