[OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

[David Muir Sharnoff]

Google's forbids many things, but looking at an image and noting the
turn restrictions (or other content) that you can see within it is not
mentioned.   Such a use is not covered by "2 (b) copy, translate,
modify, or make derivative works of the Content or any part thereof;"
since the turn restrictions are something that you can see in the
image -- not the image itself.

-Dave

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Jonathan
Bennett<openstreetmap at jonno.cix.co.uk> wrote:
> Anthony wrote:
>> Is it okay to use Google Street View to confirm turning restrictions,
>> street names, etc?  This seems like an obvious "yes" to me, but then,
>> I would have said the same thing about tracing from a satellite photo,
>> so I'm not going to try to guess international copyright law.
> The simple answer is that Street View is still protected by copyright,
> and that by using it you agree to Google's terms and conditions, so
> unless you have specific permission to derive data from it, it's safest
> to assume you can't. We're generally paranoid about copyright
> infringement because we don't want to jeopardise the entire project for
> the sake of a relatively small gain (Street View tends to cover urban
> areas, which are easier to survey in person anyway).
>
> You also need to consider that Street View still uses Google Maps as
> part of its interface (and possibly for the overlaid navigation data),
> so it's affected by the licence on that data.
>
> However, Google does own the Street View pictures themselves in their
> entirety. If they, with the location and bearing of each one was made
> available to OSM under terms compatible with CC-BY-SA (or ODBL), then we
> could use them. We would need a way of accessing the images that made no
> reference to any other geodata (so the standard web interface would be
> out). It's something we'd need to negotiate, but we can't do it at
> present, unfortunately.
>
> J.
>
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