[OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] Re: New Imagery in Google Earth file]

[Simone Cortesi]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 13:49, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
> Last I checked, the imagery had a non-commercial distribution limit on it
> (i.e. they don't want you to take their images and sell them to anyone at
> any point). All other uses were allowed (including derivative works and
> tracing) and in addition, we have explicit permission in "writing" from both
> Digital Globe and GeoEye.

When we did buy the images for Gaza last year, we ended up discovering
that aerial photography companies usually consider derivative works,
just those works which include some of the actual pixels of the image
they provide for a living. I.e. tracing over is not derivative work.

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-S