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Copyright violation?

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This user seems to just be copying from another map, overriding data that has been surveyed already.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/BGRDave/history

see note:https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/452458

asked 16 Oct '15, 13:37

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closed 22 Oct '15, 09:36

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OpenStreetMap has a changeset discussion facility where you could take an individual changeset that this user has produced, and explain why you think it may be a copyright problem. You did that in a note which is also good, but a changeset discussion entry would be directly linked to the data in question. Also, don't write "possible copyright infringement" but put it as a question: "Dear BGRDave, are you sure that the material you are taking this data from is not copyrighted? Also you seem to have modified a surveyed way here ... have you actually been to the place or are you assuming that the park map is better than manually surveyed information?" -- This will also lead to the mapper being notified about a comment on one of his changesets. Then when he doesn't reply, or tells you to leave him alone, the Data Working Group can take things further.

answered 16 Oct '15, 13:48

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