On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Janko Mihelić <jan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Imagine if Google didn't do that, you would have to find your street amongst > billions other Streetview photos. Not possible. So you can't say you aren't > using their referencing process. If you deduce the street position and shape from their photos into OSM, you are right. But if it is about checking street signs, the method how the picture is delivered by Google doesn't change any thing. The street sign remains in the public domain and is not copyrightable just because its photo has been referenced (that would be the same if we could read the signs from aerial imagery). They could be delivered by other means (e.g. "show me all pictures of street x, town y"), it's not interfering with the content. Or do you suggest that any web site referenced by Google becomes its property because you found it through Google Search and its huge web sites index ? Usually, in such discussion coming back and forth, this is the last argument trying to explain how a public domain material would become sudenly copyrightable. It's impossible. Pieren _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
