On Aug 6, 2010, at 11:09 AM, John Smith wrote: > On 7 August 2010 03:04, SteveC <st...@asklater.com> wrote: >> Sounds like you've never been to court. Who's right or wrong is a secondary >> consideration here, the first order of magnitude issue is who has more >> money. We lose on that one. > > So basically anyone can make any copyright claim they like and OSM > will throw out data rather than risk going to court over the matter?
If they have several orders of magnitude more money then probably the cost/benefit tradeoff would suggest throwing out the data is the better option. Of course you could envisage entirely frivolous claims or losing huge amounts of data, but I suspect it would more be a list of 10-100 users and a relatively small set of data. Losing that compared to an injunction shutting down OSM (which would be an early step if we didn't comply, as we're the publisher of the data and safe harbor would be argued against) I'd pick lose the data. Of course, IANAL. I've just taken people to court for copyright infringement in the past. Steve stevecoast.com _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
