Hi,
On 21.10.19 12:31, Edward Bainton wrote:
> If the employer is to give permission, do we have a way of capturing
> that somehow? Is there a repository of PDFd emails authorising such
> things, for example?
When employees are asked by their employer to contribute data to OSM in
the course of
Thank you.
If the employer is to give permission, do we have a way of capturing that
somehow? Is there a repository of PDFd emails authorising such things, for
example?
On the Talk-GB list it was suggested an organisation should create a
corporate account, but I don't know that that's any
If it was outside of the UK it is very unlikely that the edits by the
employee would be considered anything protectable outside of them adding
a substantial extract of data from a database that is protected by EU
database regulation.
In the UK however I suppose there is a chance of the edits,
Ah and perhaps we should distinguish between the employee whose manager
says, "Put this into OSM" and the employee who thinks, "My employer doesn't
care how I get the job done, so hang this proprietary GIS she's given me,
my job is so much easier on OSM and she'll thank me for using it."
On Sat,
Thank you both. To clarify, this is in the UK, where I am in discussion
with two organisations.
>From a purely legal perspective, can I simply plough on trying to invest
them in the usefulness of OSM on the basis that, if any employer became
unhappy, their remedy is against their employee for
Jurisdiction dependant, but here are two general concepts which I think are
relevant:
As the statute you quoted specifies, when copyright will belong to the
employer, it tends to depend on if the copyrightable work was made within
the scope of the employee's job. (If you're a software programmer,
The question is rather complicated and if at all can really only be approached
on a per jurisdiction base as both employment regulation and certain aspects
of intellectual property law differ widely by territory.
So the 1st thing to clarify would be where this is taking place and which law
is
