The inclusion of copyright notices and logos in not inconsistent with personal use. The concept of fair use means one may use part of a copyrighted work without special permission, but that does not mean the publisher does not have an interest in including such notices.
Besides, how can you be sure that all browser output is within the definition of "personal use?" Someone might easily print 100 copies or more of anything that a browser can produce. Even when blanket permission for limited use is given, as in this Google document http://www.google.com/permissions/geoguidelines.html Google is quite strict about requiring that the embedded notices be retained within the map image in the absence of "special permission" allowing some other credit: "All uses of Google Maps and Google Earth must provide attribution to Google and our content providers similar to what is shown to the users of our products today. You may not modify, minimize or obstruct copyright attribution text or the Google logo by any means. The attribution text must be legible and must use a font size of 6 points or greater. If for some reason this cannot be done in a screen shot, separate attribution text must be provided in a reasonably apparent location with special permission. ... "Copyright attribution text and Google logo must be visible inside the screen and cannot be obstructed or modified by any means." On Oct 17, 1:46 pm, Garthan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The general user.. who prints it for personal use ... isnt publishing > his output > he is just using it. So perhaps its optimized for the user? > > On Oct 17, 1:26 pm, boomerbubba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Why do Google maps, when printed via a browser's File -> Print menu, > > strip the Google logo and copyright notices from the printout? Is > > this a bug or a feature? I can't fathom why Google would not want > > these notices to appear in printouts. > > > I posted a similar question in the Google Maps Troubleshooting group, > > but have had no replies. The behavior seems to affect Google Maps in > > general, including My Maps and Maplets. > > > I now see from browsing many examples in the Google Maps API Demo > > Gallery that the same behavior occurs uniformly in maps produced by > > the API. > > > All of this seems quite at odds with Google Maps' terms of use and > > documentation for Geopermissions, which are quite strict about > > requiring the logo and copyright notices to be retained within map > > images.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
