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If you enter 'statue' in the search, it'll give you a list of famous statues. If you click any of them, you are shown the artwork together with a description.
by thomasahle 11y ago
If you enter 'statue' in the search, it'll give you a list of famous statues. If you click any of them, you are shown the artwork together with a description.
This seems to fit the description of a 'database' given elsewhere in this thread, but it may be that some detail in the law allows things like this. Perhaps because it is a database that contains other things than art as well.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoIts free. Maybe that's the difference.
- hjnilsson 11y agoThat is the same argument that typing "Avengers 3 torrent" in Google Search gives download links, so Google are liable for copyright infringement the same way Pirate Bay is. While technically true, there is a diference in intent here that needs to be taken into consideration.
- Too 11y agoNo, Google themselves are providing Street view, the maps and taking the all the photos.
- Trombone12 11y agoThat's a good point, I didn't know about that functionality. I'm not sure the distinction that the database also contains other, unrelated, data and photos matter in this case. Certainly the database that google has backing its mapping service has commercial value in a much more obvious way compared to the wikimedia public artwork database. I guess that the licensing agency either didn't know of this function, or else started with the easier target. My baseless guess for the outcome if they sue google is that google would win on jurisdictional grounds after five years of battle.