> No, it means that Google Street View now is a collective work that > incorporates some CC-SA licensed images. The license explicitly says > that collective works need not be CC licensed themselves.
It's already been pointed out that there might be leeway between what it 'collective' and what is 'derrivative'. In my case (the street sign picture) they are purely displaying it as a whole so I guess that they are a collective work, however in the new fancy stuff they are actively blending photos into a mosasic which surely is a derriative work. Looking at the term of the CC-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode), a collective work producer *MUST* remove items when requested to do so by the original author. For Street View, problems are normally reported via the 'report a problem' link in the lower left. Unfortunately this (for the image) is linking to a page more designed to report the image as inappropriate material or against Flickr terms of service. It does not provide a way to contact Google themselves.... So using the 'report a problem' on the street view I have sent the following.... I wonder how they will respond. -- I am the copyright holder on the 'User Image' (of the street sign) which is offered at this location. This image is licensed under the CC-SA 2.0, which requires derivative works to be licensed under the same (or compatible) license. Please either remove the image or license the imagery from Google Street view under the CC-SA license. It may be that you consider the use of this image to be a 'collective work', in which case you are obliged to remove it from said collective work as per term 4a of the license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode I would also point out that the 'report a problem' link for the image does not allow an usage objection (such as this) to be filed with Google, this seems to be a rather large oversight. Yours faithfully, Simon Wood. (aka. Mungewell) -- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
