[OSM-legal-talk] IMPORTANT!!: YWMS plugin is not allowed.Don't use it.

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Kristian Thy wrote:
> 
>> [1] Seeing as it isn't really Yahoo!'s images (the copyright notice have
>> read (c) iCube or somesuch) it is beyond me how they can even allow us
>> to derive anything from it. They don't own the copyright!
> 
> AIUI Yahoo buy a package of rights, and the rights to sublicense said  
> rights, from the imagery providers.
> 
> One of these rights is the derivation right. Yahoo are sublicensing  
> that right to OSM.
> 
> This is very much AIUI though: Steve or Mikel will have more. Of  
> course, it's a moot point whether any copyright subsists in tracings  
> from anyone's aerial photos, anyway. I sorely doubt that it would in  
> the States, for example.

That is a straight question to ask CC lawyers. I've added it to
the bottom of the legal FAQ page, along with some other stuff about 3rd
party data.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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