Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Brexit & EU database rights

2020-12-13 Thread Tom Hughes via legal-talk
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Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-24 Thread Tom Hughes via legal-talk
On 24/09/2020 10:18, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: it contains changesets, notes, etc. but not diary posts or changeset comments (correct me if I’m wrong). You're wrong: https://planet.openstreetmap.org/planet/discussions-latest.osm.bz2 Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compt

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] To delete or not to delete, that is the question...

2011-08-20 Thread Tom Hughes
exist)? Surely you just leave it there but change it to access=private or whatever... As and when you find a legitimate way to map the real public footpath you can add that in separately. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ legal

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A case for CT + CC-BY-SA

2011-07-25 Thread Tom Hughes
ally the people given the posters were provided a toolkit that allowed them to use OS or OSM data depending on what was best for a given station and they made a mistake and attached the wrong copyright statement to the OSM produced ones. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) ht

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs are not full copyright assignment

2011-07-11 Thread Tom Hughes
ights should be limited to active contributors, was IMHO a bad idea. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs are not full copyright assignment

2011-07-11 Thread Tom Hughes
ring that it will in practice be impossible. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs are not full copyright assignment

2011-06-29 Thread Tom Hughes
ll-grounded criticism and with personal attacks. Hardly anyone of the people who criticised my suggestion have made any efforts to seriously work towards alternative solutions to the problem, and those who did were themselves ignored. What exactly was this constructive proposal? Tom -- Tom Hugh

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs are not full copyright assignment

2011-06-27 Thread Tom Hughes
us to block everybody for six months so a vote could be rigged would clearly be unreasonable and would be ignored. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs are not full copyright assignment

2011-06-27 Thread Tom Hughes
ked out of logging in. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Recent spike in the CT acceptance graph

2011-05-31 Thread Tom Hughes
, and about 50 who have declined, i.e more than average. We think decliners are trying to game the system, particular with regard to deleting then recreating relations. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ legal-talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-06 Thread Tom Hughes
1/changes-to-the-os-opendata-licence/ Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODBL Coverage

2010-11-16 Thread Tom Hughes
alk and stop trying to move them around. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread Tom Hughes
be able to find that in the rails_port source code history. I doubt it, because there weren't any contributor terms before that. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstr

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Timetables and transport plans: copyright?

2010-06-29 Thread Tom Hughes
...and be very grateful to that person! please do not hesitate! It will be whichever articles deal with copyright and database right. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] legal-talk mailing list archive is broken

2010-06-08 Thread Tom Hughes
link was pointing to originally! Somebody probably asked us to remove something - that requires a rebuild of the archive. Specifically in this case I think Richard had forwarded an email sent to the list owner to the list, and the author of the email objected and asked for it to be removed. >

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proposed human readable contributor terms

2010-05-14 Thread Tom Hughes
we don't need to explain how attribution is handled but rather that we don't need to mention that it's a change because a new user has no knowledge of previous arrangements. In other words the first sentence of the last paragraph is not needed for a new user

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proposed human readable contributor terms

2010-05-14 Thread Tom Hughes
urrently. New users don't need to know that we're making a change, or that attribution is handled differently - they just need to know how things work now, not how they used to work. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ _

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODBL enforcement: contract law and remedies

2009-10-28 Thread Tom Hughes
idence? Go our and beg somebody to steal our data so we can sue them and see if CC works? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODBL enforcement: contract law and remedies

2009-10-27 Thread Tom Hughes
ames from Google. Ignoring the contract restrictions Google impose via their terms of use you mean? You see, other people do think contracts are needed ;-) Yes, I know that the whole question of whether those terms are binding in contract law given the lack of explicit accept

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proper attribution

2009-10-20 Thread Tom Hughes
p.org was lacking attribution and the user in question simply reverted that edit without any comment or discussion. The main issue of debate surrounds exactly what forms of attribution are/are not valid. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] UK Public Rights of Way

2009-09-17 Thread Tom Hughes
her question. It's not the map itself that is interesting, it's the paths they have drawn on it (many of which post date 1956 presumably) but if they have only used that old map in doing so then there is no derivation problem. Of course like you I'm not sure, from a practica

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] UK Public Rights of Way

2009-09-17 Thread Tom Hughes
r. Bear in mind that even if you get it with an FOI request that does not give you permission to copy or distribute it to anybody else - copyright and database rights still apply in the normal way to information obtained via FOIA unless explicitly waived. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Monopoly City Streets

2009-09-09 Thread Tom Hughes
ings in the blog. How about we calm down, wait until the game is live this evening and we might be able to see what they've done and if it is a problem... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ legal

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: [OSM-talk] copyright problemwith datacopiedfrom a map

2009-08-18 Thread Tom Hughes
On 18/08/09 11:18, Peter Miller wrote: > > On 18 Aug 2009, at 10:30, Tom Hughes wrote: > >> On 18/08/09 09:27, Peter Miller wrote: >> >>> Andy mentions that copyright violation needs to go to the Data >>> Working >>> Group. Why? Sure the foundation n

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: [OSM-talk] copyright problem with datacopiedfrom a map

2009-08-18 Thread Tom Hughes
s, like sending email direct to the user from somebody "official" (ie the foundation) that ordinary users are not able to do. Hopefully people will be more likely to respond to such communication to explain what they are doing which can help determine whether there is in fact a problem w

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Contact Info For Tom Hughes Regarding Public Domain Mailing List

2008-10-21 Thread Tom Hughes
Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > Does anyone have the e-mail address for Tom Hughes so I could request > the creation of a public domain mailing list for OSM? Is there a more > appropriate way to handle this request? I'm not hard to find... I'm also not the right person to create

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Timeline for implementation of the ODBL

2008-10-16 Thread Tom Hughes
Peter Miller wrote: > I also notice that there are technical tasks that need an owner and > other items on the TODO list. Any offers? I already have the implementation work in hand. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.comp

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: [talk-au] more copyright stuff

2008-05-09 Thread Tom Hughes
the theory is that because the shows had the same characters and things there was derivation involved, but is seems quite a stretch really. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetm

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] converted GPX trace

2008-04-23 Thread Tom Hughes
e a delete button. If it's not one of your traces then the question is, how do you know what the source was and have you spoken to the person that uploaded it about the problem? Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ l

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Attribution

2008-04-07 Thread Tom Hughes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I would certainly prefer that people using our data provide a link >> to www.openstreetmap.org or the top level wiki index pag

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Attribution

2008-04-07 Thread Tom Hughes
dvertise our project that is not a good URL to use. I would certainly prefer that people using our data provide a link to www.openstreetmap.org or the top level wiki index page as that would do a better job of advertising our project to people that follow the attribution link, which is surely the wh

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Houses of cards

2008-02-21 Thread Tom Hughes
eone could take the data, strip the > licensing notice and distribute it as his own? Yes, but you would be breaking the law and could be sued as without the license granted you by the copyleft license you are left in the default position for an

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Progressing OSM to a new dataLicence regime

2008-02-06 Thread Tom Hughes
tract had not been >> breached, which is zero in our case. > > Surely if someone breaches contract you would sue them to, well, stop > breaching the contract? Injunctive relief is the other option, yes. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ _

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Progressing OSM to a new dataLicence regime

2008-02-06 Thread Tom Hughes
; fantasizing about having legal powers to enforce anything. The problem is that we know that if we go down that route we will almost certainly loose (a) a lot of contributors and (b) a lot of existing data. We know this because a number of people have stood up and said they will withdraw their

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Yahoo satellite imagery in Merkaartor

2008-02-05 Thread Tom Hughes
erstand the situation it is fine, so long as you use one of the two Yahoo provided APIs to access it - either the javascript one or the flash one. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@open

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Progressing OSM to a new

2008-02-04 Thread Tom Hughes
le on a CC-BY-SA basis. The fact that the project has itself been outside the terms of that license is neither here nor there - that is after all one of the things we are trying to fix! I'm not quite sure why you think the project is violating BY though as SA is the main problem area? Tom

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

2008-02-04 Thread Tom Hughes
ight. I think the concept of an explicit requirement to hand back data is the part of this plan that I gave most concerns about - it was certainly far and away the most problematic clause of the original Mozilla license I think, and the whole idea seems to have largely vanished since then in most open licenses. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

2008-02-04 Thread Tom Hughes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nick Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 4, 2008 11:41 AM, Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I believe so, yes. A shapefile would be a derived database and hence >> would have to be licensed on the sam

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

2008-02-04 Thread Tom Hughes
assed as distribution of the > database? What should my company do in this case? Clearly that is distribution of the database so 4.6(b) would require you to make an unrestricted version available. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___