all of his images are now the property of google. if for some reason he or anyone else wants to use these images at some point in the future for some sort of pr

all of his images are now the property of google. if for some reason he or anyone else wants to use these images at some point in the future for some sort of project he would have to pay google a fee. that idea seems so bizarre to me especially when there are a few different services that will do the same thing but instead the images would be available to everyone. how does someone plan out such a huge project like he did without looking around to see what the alternatives are? maybe mapillary need to up their marketing a notch