The organisations that take the pictures make most of their money from selling current images to people who need them, for high prices. Selling bulk imagery to Google is a very small part of their operation, and allows them to get some income from images that are so old that they're not otherwise very marketable. If they were to let Google give away new imagery for free then their main customers would get the imagery from Google.
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