Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Contributor Terms

2009-07-04 Thread Francis Davey
2009/7/3 Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com: My point is that granting powers to relicense the data is basically equivalent to copyright assignment (plus certain conditions, as happens when you assign copyright to the FSF, they promise to keep to a free licence in the future), but it is better to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Privacy and Terms

2009-07-04 Thread Ulf Möller
Francis Davey schrieb: No (though you will often see small print disclaimers on them). The idea of restricting access to age 13+ strikes me as odd in the extreme. When I get some time I'll do some research into what is going on in the US that makes them do this.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Privacy and Terms

2009-07-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Ulf Möller wrote: No (though you will often see small print disclaimers on them). The idea of restricting access to age 13+ strikes me as odd in the extreme. When I get some time I'll do some research into what is going on in the US that makes them do this.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Privacy and Terms

2009-07-04 Thread Matt Amos
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Frederik Rammfrede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, Ulf Möller wrote: No (though you will often see small print disclaimers on them). The idea of restricting access to age 13+ strikes me as odd in the extreme. When I get some time I'll do some research into what is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Printed maps and new license

2009-07-04 Thread Simon Ward
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 03:30:01PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: If you have enough room then we prefer the URLs for OSM and CC written out. There is some info here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ#I_would_like_to_use_OpenStreetMap_maps._How_should_I_credit_you.3F Now that we

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Privacy and Terms

2009-07-04 Thread Francis Davey
2009/7/4 Matt Amos zerebub...@gmail.com: i'll suggest that to our lawyer, but this might mean having more than two sets - apparently Canada and Australia have their own versions of COPPA. and i guess the EU has something similar. it may end requiring us to to have a different set of TsCs for

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Privacy and Terms

2009-07-04 Thread Ed Avis
Richard Fairhurst rich...@... writes: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Case_law http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Statute_law Thanks, I've had a look at that. It seems to agree with the usual layman's view of the subject: that facts are not copyrightable, though the expression of them may

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Privacy and Terms

2009-07-04 Thread Russ Nelson
On Jul 3, 2009, at 7:20 AM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: It's a public site, no passwords, no sign up required to read it, so it's for the public to read. What if somebody posts hate speech (for the USAmericans)? What if somebody adds Nazi party mapping parties to the calendar (for the