[OAM-talk] a dramatically simplified technical proposal

[Steven M. Ottens]

Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>
> As Chris says, the case law (that we know of) says that tracing is not 
> derivative, so this doesn't arise.
>
> See Bauman v Fussell, Antiquesportfolio v Fitch, and Ets-Hokin v Skyy 
> Spirits. (I've blogged at tedious length about this.) A good summary 
> from Christina Michalos's 'The Law of Photography and Digital Images':
Very well, I was misguided by TeleAtlas legal battering on tracing their 
imagery.

Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> If we make this statement clear when people are uploading data, that would 
> essentially be informing people ahead of time "If you disagree with this
> legal interpretation, OAM probably isn't for you; scoot"; by doing so, 
> hopefully we would prevent people who feel differently from uploading their
> imagery (and then suing tracers later).
I'm also in favour of this approach

Steven