[OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

[Anthony]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Jonathan Bennett <
openstreetmap at jonno.cix.co.uk> wrote:

> David Muir Sharnoff wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>
> Google's (or rather Tele Atlas's) lawyers would argue you were indeed
> making a derivative work, and they can afford better lawyers than us --
> unless you have a huge pot of cash you want to use to test this case?


Eh, I'd take on Google pro se (or with the help of free EFF lawyers or the
like) over the issue of the ToS, and based on US law I'm pretty sure I'd
win.  However, I'm aware that other users of OSM don't have the benefit
US-jurisdictional copyright law with respect to factual data, so I won't do
it, for their sake.

Still, I can't get my head around what the rules exactly are.  If I read a
newspaper article which says that Main Street has been renamed to
Independence Blvd, can I use that, or do I have to go out there myself and
check?  It makes no sense.
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