> In reality, it isn't. It's factual information about the world, which > is not copyrightable in the USA, and given your sweat of the brow in > tracing it, is copyrightable (but it's YOUR copyright for having > traced) in the UK. > > But that's not the point. The point is that the Google Terms of Use > prohibit tracing. Point.
And Photoshop would allow the photo image company to insert "Easter Egg" roads with a distinctive pattern that don't exist in real life. It would be pretty hard to argue that they had not been traced from that image. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
