[OSM-talk] Google StreetMap embedding Flickr photos

[simon at mungewell.org]

> No, it means that Google Street View now is a collective work that
> incorporates some CC-SA licensed images. The license explicitly says
> that collective works need not be CC licensed themselves.

It's already been pointed out that there might be leeway between what it
'collective' and what is 'derrivative'.

In my case (the street sign picture) they are purely displaying it as a
whole so I guess that they are a collective work, however in the new fancy
stuff they are actively blending photos into a mosasic which surely is a
derriative work.

Looking at the term of the CC-SA 2.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode), a collective
work producer *MUST* remove items when requested to do so by the original
author.

For Street View, problems are normally reported via the 'report a problem'
link in the lower left. Unfortunately this (for the image) is linking to a
page more designed to report the image as inappropriate material or
against Flickr terms of service. It does not provide a way to contact
Google themselves....

So using the 'report a problem' on the street view I have sent the
following.... I wonder how they will respond.

--
I am the copyright holder on the 'User Image' (of the street sign) which
is offered at this location.

This image is licensed under the CC-SA 2.0, which requires derivative
works to be licensed under the same (or compatible) license. Please either
remove the image or license the imagery from Google Street view under the
CC-SA license.

It may be that you consider the use of this image to be a 'collective
work', in which case you are obliged to remove it from said collective
work as per term 4a of the license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode

I would also point out that the 'report a problem' link for the image does
not allow an usage objection (such as this) to be filed with Google, this
seems to be a rather large oversight.

Yours faithfully,
Simon Wood.
(aka. Mungewell)
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