[OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

[John Smith]

2009/9/9 Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com>:

> If someone starts to "copy" the photos themselves, yes you are right.
> But here, we speak about reading a street sign on a picture, not
> copying the picture.

Legal arguments aside, there is very few street signs I've seen on
google street view that I can read anyway, most of them seem to be
blurred out, either intentionally, due to motion blur or jpeg like
artifacts.