Robin van Steenbergen wrote:
> Op 12-3-2012 14:33, Martin Spott schreef:
>> I'd like to emphasize that willfully violating the terms of use of a
>> map should always be considered as being illegal and therefore
>> unwelcomed (particularly in FlightGear land), no matter wether the
>> map-maker can actually prove in court or not.
> I hope you do realize that modeling scenery from a set of photographs is
> also violating copyright (under those same rules), namely that of the
> photographer?
Not generally, instead this depends on the copyright under which the
photograph has been published.
A lot of photographs have been published under a permissive license so
people can just use them for modelling in FlightGear without violating
any license or terms of use, some modeller(s) even negotiated with the
publisher of a website which lists prominent scyscrapers (I don't
remember the name any more), some people are taking photographs just
for the purpose of creating models in FlightGear .... just to present
a few examples.
> (Before you ask, there have been cases over this, by the Belgian
> copyright authority trying to sue anyone who published photographs of
> Brussels' Atomium structure, claiming a derivative work off the
> copyrighted design of the architect.)
That's an interesting case and we probably had a similar one recently
in Germany. Did they try to sue anyone who *published* these
photographs (on their private Picasa/Flickr/Panoramio or other albums)
or just those who *sold* photographs ?
Cheers,
Martin.
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