[OSM-talk] Google WMS: is this legal?

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 30 13:27:17 BST 2010


On 30 March 2010 22:15, Someoneelse <lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk> wrote:
> Well - there may be some jurisdiction out there dumb enough to make a
> violation of some Ts & Cs an infringement of some law or other.
> Unlikely, but possible, and dafter laws do get passed from time to time,
> so "definitely not" is probably overstating it a tad.

They tried it in the US after a girl committed suicide due to misuse
of Facebook or similar sites... I think the ruling has since been
repealed...




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