As a sanity check can I propose a few uses of OSM data and see if we think they would be allowed, or not allowed, based on the proposed licence and also if we would want them to be allowed or not. Can I suggest that we build up a library of such scenarios and for each one discuss any legal difficulties?
Someone takes OSM data and creates a map of an area of the country and surrounds it with photos and diagrams and wants the collection to be C to them. I would hope that this was allowed but that the person was expected to put a licence phrase relating to the OSM content on the resulting map. Someone take OSM data, makes some additions to the street data and then publishes it as above with additional photos and diagrams. I would hope that this was allowed, that a message on the paper map was required and that the updated 'Derived Database' of OSM data was made available in a suitable and usable form for inclusion in OSM in the future. Someone creates a video animation from OSM data to be broadcast as part of a news package on the BBC. I would hope that it would be ok, but that a acknowledgement for OSM was included in the credits or visibly as part of the animation or by other means, possibly on their web site if there was genuinely no reasonably way to include it in the broadcast. BadMapCo creates a Collective Work based on their own mapping data (roads in most places and footpath/cycle path data in places) and augment this with additional footpath/cycle path from OSM (taken as a Derivative Database with a geocoded boundary) and then published the resulting DB as C BadMapCo as a Collective Database with acknowledgement for OSM. Over time they reduce the area taken from OSM until it isn't necessary any more, but by shrinking the area which they use from OSM as they complete their own surveying they never add any content to the Derived Database to offer back to us. LicenceBreaker creates a Collective Database with OSM data and some other random Public Domain geocoded photos and publishes it as a Collective Work as PD (which I think the licence currently allows). Someone else takes the PD Collective Work and removes the irrelevant photos and publishes the original OSM data as PD. BadInternetCompany takes OSM data, uses it to create mapping and offers it to the public and then encourages their users to correct and improve it, but claim that, since it is only for 'internal' use, they therefore don't have to offer any content back to OSM. Regards, Peter Miller
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