Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyright Assignment

2010-01-04 Thread Henk Hoff
Anthony schreef: You grant everyone the right to do anything. You're effectively releasing your content into the public domain. And since OSMF are using a broad non-exclusive licence on the database, and you are arguign that for an individual to do this effectively gives

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyright Assignment

2010-01-04 Thread Francis Davey
2010/1/4 Anthony o...@inbox.org: Hence not copyright assignment, but basically the same thing.  You give up the right to sue, and the OSMF gets the right to sue. I hope its OK if I butt in here. I'm not a proper OSMF person, just an interested lawyer who reads your list. However I think your

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyright Assignment

2010-01-04 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Francis Davey fjm...@gmail.com wrote: What OSMF _may_ get is a database right in all the bits of contribution that they get from contributors. I say _may_ because database right is not a straightforward. Its quite possible they won't have such a right, but

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyright Assignment

2010-01-04 Thread Matt Amos
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Francis Davey fjm...@gmail.com wrote: What would be acceptable? The current situation is acceptable.  We all grant a license to everyone under CC-BY-SA. which ranges from being basically PD in some

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyright Assignment

2010-01-04 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Matt Amos zerebub...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Francis Davey fjm...@gmail.com wrote: What would be acceptable? The current situation is acceptable. We all grant a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyright Assignment

2010-01-04 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Matt Amos zerebub...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Francis Davey fjm...@gmail.com wrote: What would be

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyright Assignment

2010-01-04 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2010/1/5 Francis Davey fjm...@gmail.com: 2010/1/4 Anthony o...@inbox.org: Hence not copyright assignment, but basically the same thing.  You give up the right to sue, and the OSMF gets the right to sue. ... Now *that* is very much not an assignment of copyright. The difference (and the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyright Assignment

2010-01-04 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:02 AM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/1/5 Francis Davey fjm...@gmail.com: 2010/1/4 Anthony o...@inbox.org: Hence not copyright assignment, but basically the same thing. You give up the right to sue, and the OSMF gets the right to sue. ...