[OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

[Pieren]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Jonathan
Bennett<openstreetmap at jonno.cix.co.uk> wrote:
> If the photos are geocoded -- which SV's are -- then you are deriving
> data from the whole product, both picture and location. This constitutes
> a database. While the law on this may be a grey area, it's not worth our
> while becoming the test case and jeopardising (geopardising?) the whole
> project for relatively little gain.
>
> --
> Jonathan (Jonobennett)

Yes, it's a database of photos, not a database of street signs on the
photos (or a database of posters or a database of house numbers). And
georeferences are only used to find the right photo. I could agree if
you use the photo georefs to position OSM objects, but here you just
read a street sign on the picture.
Pieren