[OSM-legal-talk] Is tracing from Yahoo allowed under the CT's

[John Smith]

On 18 August 2010 09:21, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> I don't know of any rights which Yahoo has which would be infringed
> upon.  I guess you do?

Like most/all websites they have terms and conditions, so apart from
copyright there would also be the potential for breach of contract...

> Any copyright in the aerials (which per the explanation at
> http://www.systemed.net/blog/?p=100 appears to be irrelevant) would
> likely be held by someone other than Yahoo.

Yahoo license the right to use that imagery, maybe their license
doesn't cover OSM usage, maybe it does, no one, not even google, seems
to be in a hurry to figure this out for sure...

> My understanding is that there actually is no "agreement".  Rather,
> someone from Yahoo (who can't even bind the company to anything),
> looked at the TOS and said that what OSM users were doing wasn't in
> violation of Yahoo's terms of service (looking at that wiki page,
> apparently what they said was that OSM tracing "appears to be well
> within the terms of use").

In other words there is no explicit permission to use their imagery?