On 24/11/06, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/24/06, Anthony <wikilegal(a)inbox.org>
wrote:
Much of Google Earth imagery *is* public domain.
Google has not added
the necessary creativity to change this.
That said, it's much safer to just use NASA Worldwind.
I didn't say that Google has copyright over imagery in Google Earth. I
said that the imagery is copyrighted.
IANAL, of course, but I believe that the work that Google has done in
stitching together all the various image data sets to produce a
derivative work (Google Earth) based on them would count as creative
and original, so a screenshot of such a stitched area would infringe
their copyright.
--
Earle Martin
http://downlode.org/
http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/