[OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

[Dan Karran]

2009/9/10 David Muir Sharnoff <lists at dave.sharnoff.org>:
> Has anyone set a letter to Google's legal department asking for
> clarification or permission?

I haven't asked their legal department, but Ed Parsons said in an
email yesterday (not sure if my post[1] about it got through to the
list?) that it's ok to check our facts, but anything more than that
(extracting/mass extracting of data) is not likely to be compliant
with their license agreement. As I see it, if their license agreement
prevents us doing it, then it's already ruled out, and it's not a
question of what copyright or database law says at that point.

If we want to be able to extract data as well then I'm pretty sure
we'd need a license to do so.

[1] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-September/041758.html


Cheers,
Dan

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