On 1/19/06, Anthony DiPierro
<wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
The challenge to Google's claim of copyright
on the image (which in
itself was educational) didn't come until the image had already been
up there for months. In fact, the image itself didn't even include a
claim of copyright by Google, it was from one of the very first
editions of the software when Google didn't yet have the audacity to
make such an obviously specious claim. (*)
Anthony
(*) The image in question was exported from Google Earth (example at
http://www.newrecruit.org/images/blog/googleearth/paris.jpg). The
compass on the bottom left was not present and neither was the
copyright notice on the bottom right (not because I removed them, but
because Google had not yet added them). Like the image I presented
there were no 3-D elements. I think it's clear to anyone with any
knowledge of copyright law that Google has *zero* copyright interest
in such an image. You don't get copyright on something simply because
it is part of the output of a program you wrote, and all the rest of
the possibly copyrighted features are held by someone else (in the
case of my photo, the state of New Jersey).
I know in France the architect has copyright photos of their buildings,
but the State of New Jersey has copyright over your photo of...?
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