On 29 July 2010 22:47, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > That was another question I meant to ask. Does one map in accordance > with the legal jurisdiction that the OSM servers are within, the > jurisdiction where the mapper is, or the jurisdiction of the area > being mapped?
"You" personally need to care about your location, obvious, doesn't matter why you do something if you break the law and get caught you are still in trouble. "OSM-F" covers themselves in a number of ways, firstly they actively discourage copying from other sources unless you have express permission, and secondly they are fairly reactive when it comes to people making claims about copyright infringement. None of the above would prevent a frivolous lawsuit no matter how much you are in the right it could still be the equivalent of legal extortion, ie do what we say or we'll sue you. As for mapping remotely, that depends on your jurisdictions and any cross border agreements in place between the remote country, take for example the Aussie that was extradited to the US on charged of criminal copyright infringement, he didn't break any local laws and he never set foot in the US but they still managed to have him sent to the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DrinkOrDie#Member_raids In short, it all depends who you tick off and how much absolute power they have to do something about it, and effort they want to put into it. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au