[OSM-talk] Illegal activity

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/11/1 Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com>

> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Jukka Rahkonen wrote:
> > There is an interesting blog post at http://www.systemed.net/blog/?p=100
> > Tracing a copyrighted work, is not necessarily copying. See image at
> >
> http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/new-imagebank/politics/0707_obamaputin.jpg
> > Sure, the image itself is copyrighted. ...
>
> I don't like this thread because it could leave the impression that
> tracing on orthophotos is not a copyright infringement. Unfortunately,
> it is. People are mixing factual data visible on a picture like "the
> forest is on the east of the lake" and georeferenced data based on
> orthorectified photos. Reading a street sign on street view is on the
> first category. Tracing on Google Maps or others is in the second
> category and is copyright infringement. Point.
>

besides from the (AFAIK unanswered question) if partly tracing an orthofoto
is a copyright infringement, it is an infringement of Google's Terms of
Service, and: there is common consense in OSM that we don't use sources that
might be copyrighted (namely and explicitly Google's) unless we have written
and explicit permission to do so.

cheers,
Martin
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