With a budget of about $75 million [1], productions like this certainly have the resources to get the credits and licensing right, so there is no excuse for being sloppy. Does the OSM Foundation have lawyers or communications staff who would be in a good position to address this issue with the responsible parties?
Pine [1] https://variety.com/2016/film/news/box-office-tom-hanks-inferno-international-1201890418/ On Oct 21, 2016 9:06 PM, "Eugene Alvin Villar" <sea...@gmail.com> wrote: > I saw another mainstream film that credits OSM in the end credits and this > is the film adaptation of Dan Brown's novel Inferno. The credit went “© > OpenStreetMap contributors”. There was no mention of any license again. > > I've decided to create a new wiki page[1] to list these films, linked from > the "Press" wiki page[2]. > > [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Films > [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Portal:Press > > ~Eugene > > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I just saw the film Eye in the Sky, starring Helen Mirren and Alan >> Rickman (the movie is really good), and I was pleasantly surprised to >> see OpenStreetMap and its contributors get a credit in the end >> credits. The surprise is partly because I do not recall seeing any map >> in the film that looked like it came from OSM. >> >> IIRC, the credit went like “OpenStreetMap © OpenStreetMap >> contributors”. No mention of any license though. >> >> Now I'm wondering whether there are any other mainstream films that >> also use and credit OpenStreetMap as well. This is the first time I've >> seen such a credit and I don't recall any mention as well on this >> mailing list. >> >> ~Eugene >> > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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