[OSM-legal-talk] How does Google map maker handle copyright

[Nic Roets]

I tried out GMM by adding a road and a hotel in Tanzania that I visited.
There were a few clouds on the Landsat image, so the moderator rejected the
hotel. Perhaps they aren't interested in local knowledge !

But more seriously : Perhaps they just feel that it's up to the individual
to make sure he/she is in compliance with relevant intellectual property
law. After all, they only remove copyrighted material from the caches of
their search engine and from Youtube when there is a complaint.

Unlike google, we distribute our maps in many permanent forms, like planet
dumps and hardcopy. So it would be quite difficult to remove all copies. And
I would be disappointed if I missed an opportunity to survey a location
because someone contributed copyrighted material that was later removed.
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