The terms are a bit hidden:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html The terms top right to: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html Then "Google Terms of Service link to: http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS <<By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a > perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive > licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly > perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit,>> I think this is quite clear that it covers any data you display on their maps no matter what technique you use to get it there Given googles quick removel of the terms from their chrome licence I was wondering why this had not happened elsewhere as well. The OS definitley view any data that is even just checked against any of their products to be at least partially derived. This gives problems to most UK organisations if they want to use Google maps as the vast majority of data in the UK has an element of OS derivation in it (at least according to OS!) I would hope that this can be swiftly sorted (ideally by google adjusting the terms as they did with chrome) P.S. Apologies if this appears twice - the first post seemed to go missing ! On Oct 2, 8:40 pm, "Barry Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:27 PM, fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in > > Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. > > By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a > > perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive > > licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly > > perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, > > post or display on or through, the Services. This licence is for the > > sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the > > Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the > > Additional Terms of those Services." > > Where do you find that in the Maps terms? > > And I see that as content specfically submitted 'though' Google > services. That would be for example via My Maps - and Google needs > that licence to do it. Not so with a mashup made via the API. The data > is not going to Google, the maker of the site could impose their own > similar terms. > > > > > Following on from the withdrawl of the contentious clause from googles > > chrome browser - > > e.g.http://www.pcpro.co.uk/macuser/news/222792/google-drops-claim-to-chro... > > should I be even more worried that its still in a range of their other > > products - e.g. Picasa and the google maps api - or are they going to > > remove it from those as well ? > > > In the UK the OS regulalry claim rights to derived data to the Nth > > degree - even a GPS position that has been checked against a map of > > theirs they consider derived - > > Its not quite as 'far reaching' as that. A point plotted on their map > (particully with the OpenSpace API) they may consider derived > information, not every point displayed. > > > this could mean that they consider that > > just about anyone in the UK adding data onto a google map would be in > > breach of OS copyright. > > > Surely this isn't what google wants or means - if they can remove it > > from Chrome - why can't they remove it from the maps TOU - hopefully > > its just an oversight that will rapidly be rectified - otherwise I'll > > have to look at Virtual Earth again. > > > Any views ? > > -- > Barry > > -www.nearby.org.uk-www.geograph.org.uk- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
