On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves<law...@au-kbc.org> wrote: > no - for all the reasons already mentioned. It is not ok to use it for > anything whatsoever to do with OSM.
First, all I have seen here are just opinions. Second, copyright laws and definition of "derivative work" depends on the country you are. And StreetView is present in many countries now. There are some questions here : is the content of a photo copyrighted like the photo itself ? And reading a street sign on a image a copyright infringement ? For both, I would say 'no'. What is copyrighted is the photo itself, not its content. That's why you cannot draw on the top of a satellite picture. Your work is derivated from the picture, not from the earth. Did Google payed copyright owners before taking pictures of houses facades, streets, monuments, posters, human bodies, etc ? No. Pieren _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
