If it was outside of the UK it is very unlikely that the edits by the
employee would be considered anything protectable outside of them adding
a substantial extract of data from a database that is protected by EU
database regulation.
In the UK however I suppose there is a chance of the edits,
Ah and perhaps we should distinguish between the employee whose manager
says, "Put this into OSM" and the employee who thinks, "My employer doesn't
care how I get the job done, so hang this proprietary GIS she's given me,
my job is so much easier on OSM and she'll thank me for using it."
On Sat,
Thank you both. To clarify, this is in the UK, where I am in discussion
with two organisations.
>From a purely legal perspective, can I simply plough on trying to invest
them in the usefulness of OSM on the basis that, if any employer became
unhappy, their remedy is against their employee for
