On 1 March 2010 22:44, <[email protected]> wrote: > In my case (the street sign picture) they are purely displaying it as a > whole so I guess that they are a collective work, however in the new fancy > stuff they are actively blending photos into a mosasic which surely is a > derriative work.
I guess that the new position, orientation and other metadata would be derived works, while the mosaic itself would be just a combination of everything and therefore a collective work. It would be really cool for OSM-like projects if we could force Google to publish this new metadata under a CC:SA license rather than have them remove CC:SA images from their maps. If this happened we could upload our own sloppily geo-tagged images to Flickr or other hosting services under CC:SA licenses, then pull the metadata back out from Google once they'd used their streetview images to perfectly align them, then people could do all kinds of cool stuff with the data: make our own street view, run them through Bundler to get point clouds for the outlines of buildings for tracing, have someone start a rival to Photosynth, maybe even a fully textured 3D streetmap one day. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
