[OSM-talk] Australia has Google Street View!

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Tue Aug 5 19:45:02 BST 2008


Hi,

Igor Brejc wrote:
> Do we have any lawyers in the OSM community to help clear this?

It is not an issue that can be cleared by lawyers since they have wildly 
different opinions themselves. For example, one court in Germany has 
said that the person operating the shutter on an aerial imagery camera - 
or the person writing the program that does so - is legally the owner of 
the resulting data. Another court has said that such photos are not 
subject to IP law. And you have the same mess everywhere - even within 
one country. It is surely not something where a lawyer simply has to 
read a book one evening and tell us the "truth" the next morning.

Bye
Frederik

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