On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Pieren <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:53 AM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2009/11/2 Anthony <[email protected]>: >>> In France you can copyright a building >>> and anyone who takes a picture of the building and uses it for >>> commercial purposes without permission is committing copyright >>> infringement. > > False but also not completely false. As usual, they are some special > circumstances where a building can be protected but these are special > cases and can't be generalized as paranoids do (otherwise StreetView > wouldn't exist in France).
Sloppy phrasing. Change "a building" to "some buildings". I realized it didn't apply to all buildings, but I should have made that clear. > Richard is convinced that the content of the photos is not protected > and I agree on that point. But he just decides to ignore all the > investments spent to rectify and georeference these photos on which > his derivative work is based. And this investment and work is > protected. What if you download the image and then position it into place yourself? I understand that some jurisdictions have "sweat of the brow", but taken to its logical conclusion you can't do anything. What about all the work Google spent writing a search engine? Are all the websites I find through Google's search engine thereby copyright by Google? On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Peteris Krisjanis <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/11/1 Anthony <[email protected]>: >> I'm hesitant to push that issue, but hey, if OSM decides to stop >> helping people trace from Yahoo maybe someone else will come along >> with less silly rules. > > No one will. Geo photos are expensive matter and if they are not > goverment sponsored, it is usually bread and butter for company who > makes them. I meant someone other than OSM would just be less "copyright paranoid". The public domain satellite imagery available for the places I map is as good or better than the Yahoo imagery provided in Potlatch, though. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
