[OSM-talk] Australia has Google Street View!

[Michael Stilmant]

Hi,
Oups. Sorry for my Engilsh then I think I use wrongly the words here. I
shouldn't comment legal issues then :-)

"I don't think a service can be copyrighted. "
When I was talking about google's services, I was saying "Google offer the
service to put a name on a given street via the Google Map"
if this service cannot be copyrighted I will use google services to complete
OSM then ;-D

"Those conditions could only be agreed on in a contract.  But then they
would need to make you agree."
I don't really understand you here sorry. I just wanted to say that I think
google street view cannot been used for OSM and it seems that from Steve
Email that it is confirmed (for the moment):

SteveC  to Licensing, Openstreetmap
[OSM-legal-talk] Google Street View

No, it cannot be used.

I'm talking to some people about this but we're not at a stage where I
can announce anything positive or negative about it.


On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Matthias Julius <lists at julius-net.net>wrote:

> "Michael Stilmant" <michael.stilmant at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I think the problem is not the image itself but the fact that, thanks to
> > google services you can locate this image and say "this is related to
> that
> > street I need to name into OSM"
> > So it is a derivated work from Google service; so it is not allowed.
>
> I don't think a service can be copyrighted.  Those conditions could
> only be agreed on in a contract.  But then they would need to make you
> agree.
>
> Matthias
>
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