[Talk-us] Amazon's Organized College Campus Editing

[Mark Wagner]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 08:09:55 +0200 (CEST)
Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-us <talk-us at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> (1)
> As far as I know - even if strictly speaking it is probably legally
> legal it is still against OSM rules.
> 
> Otherwise, following this further it would mean that copying map data
> from Google Maps is fine, right? And just violation of their terms of
> use?
> 
> And as far as I know copying from Google Maps is not OK for OSM
> editing.
> 
> ("OpenStreetMap is not the place to explore gray areas of
> international copyright law") Or is it OK and fine to copy from
> Google Maps in USA?
> 
> Or is Google different because it operates also in countries with
> database rights?

Google is different in two ways:

1) Google and OSM both operate in the UK, which did (and I think still
does) recognize "database rights".

2) Google being an 800-pound gorilla means it can claim rights it
doesn't actually have, and unless you're an 800-pound gorilla yourself,
it's rather difficult to dispute it.

-- 
Mark