2009/2/7 Frederik Ramm <[email protected]>: > Liz, > >> OSM needs a protocol in which suspect material is reported in a particular >> manner; contact is made with the mapper involved; a small time period is >> given for reply; all suspect material removed until resolution. > > But in this case, as related by Albertas, the person who supposedly > imported copyrighted material has, after being challenged, repeatedly > created new accounts to upload data. > > It must be assumed that the person has the technical means to do this in > an automated fashion. > > This means that suspending an account and/or deleting data of > questionable provenance would not help. It would help in the sense of > demonstrating that we try to do something (so if Tele Atlas complain we > can at least say "but we're trying"), but it would not help to actually > protect us. > > It will be very difficult to create technical measures to make us immune > against such acts; and many potential measures fall into the category of > we-do-not-want-to-go-there-nannyism and create undesirable barriers of > entry for new users. We have to be quite careful. >
if this goes on, we could try to legally enforce prevention ourself, as this behavour violates our own terms and conditions (do not copy other maps). Martin _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
