AJ- I am personally planning on making a rap revolving around your maps mashups. I'm quite a talented rapper, and I think you should take the performance as a compliment. :) I believe the terms is clear about what publicly perform means (if you read the next line), so I will not comment further on that.
Andrew- We are not currently indexing geo data passed through the API. We will announce when/if we start doing that, and there may be a more specific mechanism for not having particular API content be indexed (in addition to the blanket robots.txt opt-out).This is indicated by the FAQ. This update was not necessarily intended to address OS concerns. Concerned developers should review our terms and their terms with your lawyers and make a determination about the compatibility. - pamela On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 4:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've asked the Ordnance Survey whether they now approve of the newly > updated Terms, but I'm not holding my breath for a quick response. I > would guess, for the same reasons Andrew gives above, that they will > still be unhappy with them. > > Since it appears that the whole issue of OS-derived data is going to > have a shake-up next March, I'm not currently worrying too much. If > the OS tell me to remove UK cycle routes from the CTC's web site I can > do so, but I'm not going to unless asked. > > Another potential problem is that the official "opt-out" for > situations where "you are unable or unwilling to provide such a > license to Your Content" only covers removing such data from Google's > search indexes. This would not seem to cover the situation where > Google might "reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publicly perform, > publicly display and distribute Your Content through the Service" for > their own promotional purposes. Certainly we cannot, currently, give > Google a licence to do this with data derived from Ordnance Survey > maps (which might include Google's own TeleAtlas maps...). > > But, to be honest, the whole thing is still horrible legal-speak that > really doesn't make sense to me: how would Google "publicly perform" > one of my maps? Are they planning a map-to-music algorithm? :) > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Maps-API@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
