[OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps
Stephan Knauss
osm at stephans-server.de
Sat Nov 3 19:09:05 GMT 2012
On 03.11.2012 19:25, Andrew MacKinnon wrote:
> Is copying from Google search acceptable anyway?
I say yes. Even this is inferior mapping like any kind of armchair mapping.
Let's assume one enters website addresses and phone numbers of
restaurants. Tagging phone= and website=.
You are not copying any data from Google or a Google database. You use
Google to look up factual data. Google returns a link to a website
brought online by most likely the operator of the restaurant in my
example here. That site lists the data.
Please forward your question to the legal-talk mailing list for a better
clarification, but my common sense says this can never be copyrighted
data (it's factual data). Also too little to claim database rights.
This still leaves the possibility that some user does copy from Google
Maps. Not too easy for them. To my knowledge all big editors prevent
users from using Google imagery as a background image. So without using
modified versions it's not possible. I have doubts that beginner users
are capable of doing so.
As you mentioned StreetView: Using it to create a database is likely a
violation of their TOS and OSM does not want this practice.
In which way Google could have copyright or database rights on factual
data derived from their imagery is still an open question. To discuss
this more deeply better refer to legal-talk. Starting point for reading:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Copyright_in_deriving_from_aerial_photography
Stephan
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