On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Mike N. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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.
That's why you always should use two independent sources. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
