On 31/03/11 16:49, Pieren wrote:
My first intention was to ignore this message but I cannot, I refuse
ignorance and fud. So again, some basic definitions: facts are nowhere
in the world copyrightable, nowhere. Copyright is about
creation/invention. Collections of facts are using copyright laws by
extension in some countries (but not everywhere). Photographies of
facts are copyrightable because the picture itself is an act of
creation (from the photograph). The content in the picture, if they
are not protected themselves by other creation copyrights (e.g. art)
or privacy laws (e.g. faces), are NOT copyrighted. So, you are not
allowed to copy street view pics, you are not allowed to trace on
google pics but you are allowed to say and do anything about the
content of the pictures. About the original post, I can write a book
titled "bizarre hedge in NY" where I can even say that I found it in
StreetView, I can comment the hedge form, colors and whatever in 500
chapters, 2000 pages, I can publish that book and will not violate any
Street View copyrights.
This is not about Google's copyright, it is about their terms of use.
They specifically state their images cannot be used for derivative
works, so we in OSM cannot use them.
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Cheers, Chris
user: chillly
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