[talk-ph] The legality of tracing over Google's satellite imagery

[maning sambale]

Yep! A veeeeery dangerous proposition to test.  :)

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar<seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Richard (Potlatch developer) has blogged about legal precedent and did a
> non-lawyer analysis of whether tracing stuff from Google Maps or Google
> Earth is allowed or not. See http://www.systemed.net/blog/?p=100
>
> But while he argued that it is actually permitted to trace over Google's
> imagery (but HINAL), he still insists that we in OSM should *not* attempt to
> do so while the legal ruling about this is still not clear.
>
> The article's a pretty great food for thought.
>
>
> Eugene / seav
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