8 Jul 2020, 16:35 by elga...@agol.dk: >> Matthew Woehlke wrote: >> Disclaimer: this is all US law. If you live in another country, YMMV. >> > > Yes, facts are not copyrightable. > > In Europe we unfortunately have the Database Directive > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_Directive > > Which is probably what Google would use. > > They might not win, but OSM should not spend unnecessary time in courts. > Who wants a new SCO vs IBM/(Linux)? > > > https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/710/can-i-use-google-streetview-to-help-create-maps > > == > The question has been closed for the following reason "The question has > turned into a > debate, which would be better suited for the legal-talk@ mailing list. OSM's > position > on sources is to be whiter-than-white, and not to use any third-party sources > for > which we do not have explicit permission. Please direct any further > follow-ups to > legal-talk@. Thanks --Richard" by Richard 31 May '12, 17:15 > Exactly, we are not Pirate Bay or Internet Archive or Wikidataand we are not on exciting adventure of what kind of copyright rules we can ignore. "hmm, it can be justified if we interpret law this way" or "they are unlikely to sue because" are not a good reasons to do something in OpenStreetMap. Why? See case of Internet Archive that always was on kind of edge of copyright law and recently went too far. Now they are in a serious legal trouble that has potential to end existence of Internet Archive with Wayback Machine and Open Lending Library (where the trouble started).
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