highly doubt that a derivated work from a database that has a notice (attribution) required, which was then chopped to be considered under fair use. Especially when this is repeated thousand of times.
On Thu, 31 Oct 2019, 13:56 Robert Kaiser, <[email protected]> wrote: > Simon Poole schrieb: > > It is however important to realize that their are limits to copyright > > and that for example lots of the "non-attribution" in the states is > > likely permissible fair use under US laws. It would still be good form > > to provide attribution, but it isn't something we can enforce and > > getting upset about such use is really just a tremendous waste of time. > > That "fair use" argument is actually pretty interesting and something > that people often may not think about. IANAL, but I would guess, for > example, that taking a screenshot of your app or website, which includes > a map and also does include attribution, and then crop it and cut away > the attribution incidentally, and use the result as a promotional image > on social media, may be a case where it would be considered "fair use" > and therefore attribution claims may never be successful due to this > exception from copyright law. The specific case is just a guess, but > things like that should be taken into account when we go out and demand > attribution on every little tidbit of OSM-based imagery we see floating > around... > > KaiRo > > _______________________________________________ > osmf-talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmf-talk >
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