[OSM-talk] Using photographed evacuation plans for indoor modeling?

[Russ Nelson]

Richard Weait writes:
 > Copyright is earned in a work regardless of the existence of a
 > copyright symbol on the work.
 > 
 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright

That's the Berne Convention at work. Not every country has signed
it. And at least in the U.S., you cannot copyright a fact of the
world. The shape of a building and the walls inside it are not
copyrightable. An image which depicts them might be, if it contains
creative elements, but if you use the facts that it depicts, and do
not redistribute the image itself, you are not infringing the work.

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