On Sep 20, 12:41 pm, Andrew Leach <andrew.leac...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 20 September 2011 11:35, Pil <wolf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I think it's such a simple image where there cannot be some rights on > > it, in other words: everyone can use it, change it, copy it as one > > likes. > > Copyright doesn't work like that.
That depends and surely differs from country to country. In Germany there is something like "Schöpfungshöhe" (I found 'level of creativity ' and 'threshold of originality' as translations) that's surely not very high in this case. > However, the easy way around it > which I would use in this case is to draw your own version. Hmm, yes, but when the own version exactly looks like the original one, I'd say as you said: "Copyright doesn't work like that." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To post to this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
