On 03/05/2014 17:26, colliar wrote:
How do you handle the copyright status on information from notes ?
I often find useful information like opening_hours and new openings of
shops/amenities in notes but how do I know if the anonymous user did add
this information from survey or legal sources ?
cu colliar
That's an interesting question. My first reaction would be to accept it
as made in good faith provided that there was nothing obvious like a
huge list in a systematic format.
The OpenStreetMap Foundation have signed up the the US Digital Millenium
Copyright Act and so have a fairly painless procedure to report and
remove individual items should they creep through.
If anyone working on the notes software and screens is reading this, I
suggest changing the sentence "(Please don't enter personal information
here.)" to "(Please don't enter personal information or information from
copyrighted maps or directory listings here.)"
Mike
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