2009/10/30 Kirill Bestoujev <bestou...@gmail.com>: > You just got me wrong - I'm truing to say, that Google understands, that any > court trial will fail - there is too much doubt about possibility to use > copyright laws to space fotos. If they were sure that they will win - they > would have done it. But they are not sure - so the fear to start the trial, > cause loosing would meen that everyone will know they were wrong! >
Do you know what Google as entity thinks or you just assume? Photo can be and *is* copyright subject (PD only when specially noted). What do you don't get about that? Grey area is - is tracing over sat/ortphotos creation of derative works, or not? There are speculations that as these photos shows 'facts', that copying 'facts' from these copyright works aren't actually derative and therefore not a copyright violation. However, there is no clear legal indication about one situation or another. And as someone pointed it - no serious company will touch OSM if there will be that kind of doubt about legality of data. I know it is frustrating and sometimes people want to do that in spite, but this won't help anyone, especially OSM. Cheers, Peter. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk