On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:14 PM, SteveC <st...@asklater.com> wrote: > > 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.
Slightly offtopic (hah!), but I'm curious: is OSMF setup to respond to this sort of situation quickly while maintaining communication and input from the OSMF members and greater community (where "OSMF members" is a set of people contained within the set "greater community"). What procedure would be followed if OSM received a legal threat? To whom would the threat go? (I think this is important for more than legal-talk@ to know)
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