[OSM-talk] Australia has Google Street View!

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Martes, 5 de Agosto de 2008, Matthias Julius escribió:
> Well, if reading a road sign from a picture is creating a derived work
> of that picture than looking up a word in a dictionary also creates a
> derived work of that dictionary.

Not really.

The issue here is that the road sign is not covered by any copyrights, but the 
G StreetView image *is*. 

Google *can* file a suit if you copy the street sign, as their lawyers firmly 
believe that photographs taken automatically by a car can and are protected 
by copyright.


Cheers,
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Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>

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