2009/7/24 Mike Williams <[email protected]>: > > It's technically possible but of doubtful legality. > > [How would you like it if Google stole copyright content from your web > site and used it on their web pages?]
Umm, they do it all the time! GoogleBot takes a copy of many pages on the web, and displays them in Search Results, and a myriad of other uses. Probably a majority of such pages are copyrighted - and Google has no real right to the content. It gets away it largely because its doing a service - making those pages and information contained within easier to access for visitors. - it's helping to organise the worlds information. Other search engines perform a similar service. As per the API terms you are by default granting a licence to Google to use your content - apparently primarily intended for Google to be able to Publicise your use of a Google API, but the data can also be used in other ways... > > -- > Mike Williams > http://econym.org.uk/gmap > > > > > > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
