On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 02:52:00PM +1030, stephen white wrote:
> On 09/11/2008, at 8:02 PM, Ed Parsons wrote:
> > As others have pointed out this is somewhat a grey area, however I
>
>
> I don't see Google rushing to clarify this gray area, so I can only
> think that this is the intended status quo. They want to see what
> happens, while retaining a legal shotgun to blast away bits that they
> don't like.
>
> So that seems quite clear to me. Google _do_ retain ownership over map
> derivatives, but they're just not exercising legal responses
> immediately. If you want to keep in the clear, do not use Google Maps
> (or Microsoft Virtual Earth).
>
> As a side benefit, all those crappy mash-ups would go away! Yay! :)
Nah. The mash-ups are using Google data on Google maps -- and Google
1. Has the rights to the data
2. Has reason to support the continued use of their data with *their*
maps.
So what would go away would be things which use data created via Google
Maps but don't use it with the Google Maps API, presumably. Of course,
all of this depends on how a legal team decides to pursue things, and
any behavior that involved actually pursuing takedowns of things like
Google Maps Mashups would probably be *social* suicide no matter how
legally 'correct' it is. As such, it seems unlikely to be something that
would happen in the world we actually inhabit, as opposed to the made up
one we have to occasionally pretend to live in to cover our asses
legally.
Regards,
--
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta
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