[OSM-talk] Illegal activity

[Anthony]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Mike N. <niceman at att.net> wrote:
>
>> In reality, it isn't.  It's factual information about the world, which
>> is not copyrightable in the USA, and given your sweat of the brow in
>> tracing it, is copyrightable (but it's YOUR copyright for having
>> traced) in the UK.
>>
>> But that's not the point.  The point is that the Google Terms of Use
>> prohibit tracing.  Point.
>
>  And Photoshop would allow the photo image company to insert "Easter Egg"
> roads with a distinctive pattern that don't exist in real life.   It would
> be pretty hard to argue that they had not been traced from that image.

That's why you always should use two independent sources.