Re: [OSM-legal-talk] legal-talk Digest, Vol 93, Issue 1

2014-06-04 Thread Paulo Carvalho
Here in Brazil software is covered by copyright law, not patent law, meaning that computer programs are treated like books, movies, etc. Furthermore, registration is not required for authorship. Any means proving that someone created some piece of art or other intellectual work (computer software

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-08 Thread Paulo Carvalho
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[OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-07 Thread Paulo Carvalho
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[OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-07 Thread Paulo Carvalho
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[OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-05 Thread Paulo Carvalho
, thus I could use them to observe reality and derive interpretations which would be genuine creative work. It would be illegal to use the images in Mapillary, for instance, but the facts depicted by the images are not property of Google. Your thoughts, please Paulo Carvalho

[OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-05 Thread Paulo Carvalho
The general opinion on this list has been, for cases where there wasn't a clear-cut license that answers these questions: We'll use the data if the copyright owner says we can use it. Bye Frederik I recon that the images are copyrighted, not the objects depicted by them.

[OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-05 Thread Paulo Carvalho
Hi, You may find more discussion of this topic on this OSM help page: https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/710/can-i-use-google-streetview-to-help-create-maps I see many people agree that we can use the images to access reality. This does not mean we're using the images themselves, which