And what happens if a civil servant uses Google Maps to place the street name
signs? Then the real world becomes a google-maps-derived work, doesnt it?
Lucas
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De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Anselm Hook
Enviado el: mar 05/08/2008 18:31
Para: talk@openstreetmap.org
Asunto: Re: [OSM-talk] Australia has Google Street View!
And using contacts or glasses is a derived work too... the vendor could have
twisted the photons to inject 'lye' street into your vision.
a
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Stephen Gower <socks-openstreetmap.org
<http://socks-openstreetmap.org/> @earth.li <http://earth.li/> > writes:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 10:36:14AM +0200, Erik Johansson wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Stefan Holst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 11:58 +1000, Joseph Gentle wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Good for filling in all the missing street names.
>> > Interesting question. Are we allowed to use street view images
[...]
>> [...]
>> And since they are facts and not *indexed* in a database so it
should be ok.
>
> That argument surely applies to aerial images also, and yet consensus
is
> that getting facts from them would create a derived work incompatible
with
> our licence.
Well, if reading a road sign from a picture is creating a derived work
of that picture than looking up a word in a dictionary also creates a
derived work of that dictionary.
Matthias
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