Hi, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Don't forget we have _expressly_ asked Google, in the form of Ed > Parsons at SOTM, and he has _expressly_ said, sorry, no, we don't have those > rights to give away.
Of course Russ's argument is that you do not have to be given those rights, by Ed Parsons or his upstream providers, and so the fact that Google doesn't have those rights assigned by contract (or is unwilling to assign them to you by contract) is irrelevant. > Wikipedia also recommends > you do a web search for the city name together with "latitude" and > "longitude" so, hey, why stop at Google? You can infringe on lots of other > people's content, too! Which brings me to an interesting question. We currently have a long-running theft investigation in Germany where the suspects are twin brothers. The fact that it is impossible to accuse one or the other seems to be a major complication for lawyers (it seems you cannot have a legal case against "one of you two"). Now I wonder what happens if: * If I google for the coordinates of something * find the same coordinates on 5 web pages * use them * it later turns out all these 5 pages have copied from google and the coordinates are an easter egg Who, then, has a legal case against me? I haven't lifted anything off Google, so it cannot be them; and the other 5 will have a hard time to prove I took something from them? And is something still illegal if it is impossible to bring a case against it? > But evidently I'm being an armchair lawyer: Welcome to the club. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
