[OSM-legal-talk] Copyright Assignment and ability to sue

2010-01-12 Thread Ed Avis
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

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyright Assignment and ability to sue

2010-01-12 Thread Francis Davey
2010/1/12 Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com: 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. As I've observed OSMF cannot enforce share-alike under the existing contributor terms because