[OSM-talk] Okay, this is just cool (Lockport, NY)

Elizabeth Dodd edodd at billiau.net
Sun Apr 3 11:46:23 BST 2011


On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 12:03:16 +0200
M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2011/4/3 Elizabeth Dodd <edodd at billiau.net>
> 
> > While I'm not in the habit of collecting information from Google
> > StreetView, it is fair to say that if I go to the public library
> > and in the thousands of volumes there I find one with the
> > assistance of the old card catalogue and the Dewey assignment of
> > books, then no one is concerned about my use of the library
> > database to find my book.
> >
> 
> 
> because they consent the use of the database to find books. Also
> Google Streetview consents the use of their database, but they have
> ToS associated with that use, and if you use their db, you agree to
> be subject to their ToS.

But is that legally binding?
Click Through licence agreements are not binding everywhere, so
actually, I don't agree to be subject to their ToS.



> 
> 
> The Google StreetView database isn't in Europe, it doesn't have any
> > special conditions attached to its use,
> 
> 
> 
> it has. At least if there aren't for Streetview in particular, the
> ones of Googlemaps in general do apply.
> 
>
You of course think like an engineer, and I don't.
You know quite well that I meant that there was no European Database
Rights attached to the database, and you deliberately ignore that to
strike what you believe will be a killer blow.

What you state might be true under European law, but it doesn't work
where I am. I can do as Pieren states, and that is interpret
information I see in those photographs and reuse the information I
interpret. There's no special account here of the click-through licence
(mainly because the contract is one-sided and non-negotiable), and the
database has no particular protection in the law.

I still would rather take my own photographs.



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