On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 12:03:16 +0200 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/4/3 Elizabeth Dodd <ed...@billiau.net> > > > While I'm not in the habit of collecting information from Google > > StreetView, it is fair to say that if I go to the public library > > and in the thousands of volumes there I find one with the > > assistance of the old card catalogue and the Dewey assignment of > > books, then no one is concerned about my use of the library > > database to find my book. > > > > > because they consent the use of the database to find books. Also > Google Streetview consents the use of their database, but they have > ToS associated with that use, and if you use their db, you agree to > be subject to their ToS. But is that legally binding? Click Through licence agreements are not binding everywhere, so actually, I don't agree to be subject to their ToS. > > > The Google StreetView database isn't in Europe, it doesn't have any > > special conditions attached to its use, > > > > it has. At least if there aren't for Streetview in particular, the > ones of Googlemaps in general do apply. > > You of course think like an engineer, and I don't. You know quite well that I meant that there was no European Database Rights attached to the database, and you deliberately ignore that to strike what you believe will be a killer blow. What you state might be true under European law, but it doesn't work where I am. I can do as Pieren states, and that is interpret information I see in those photographs and reuse the information I interpret. There's no special account here of the click-through licence (mainly because the contract is one-sided and non-negotiable), and the database has no particular protection in the law. I still would rather take my own photographs. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk