2011/4/2 Pieren <pier...@gmail.com> > Yes, they transform the images for panoramas. But we don't trace over these > images, we don't reuse what they added. We just look the content of the > picture. If they take a picture of your house, the house and all its > attributes (colour, shape) is not a property of Google >
+1 > because we see these attributes through a picture from Google. It has > nothing, absolutely nothing to do with derivative work. > without their database (i.e. georeferenced images made available through the streetview api) you would never be able to find your house in billions of fotos, nor know where a certain foto was taken for 99,99999% of their fotos (which are not taken in the small world of your personal knowledge). I am not a lawyer, and I am not sure whether streetview fotos are protectable or not (and whether they are actually protected in the current form they are made available), but I think that you see it in a too simplistic way. cheers, Martin
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