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
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