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They don't cover this in the article, it's just linked from it, but while it is free labor for Google, all the imagery taken by the camera is owned by the photo
by magicalist 7y ago
They don't cover this in the article, it's just linked from it, but while it is free labor for Google, all the imagery taken by the camera is owned by the photographer and only what is uploaded to the street view app is licensed to Google. They could also upload it to OpenStreetMap and Mapillary.
https://www.google.com/intl/None/streetview/loan/terms/ https://www.google.com/intl/None/streetview/loan/terms/ (see Minimum Imagery and Ownership and Use of Images)
- Nemo_bis 7y agoYes, and they should. But let's quote the actual terms of use (https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en#toc-content https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en#toc-content ): ---- When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. ---- Considering the "limited purpose" is as vast as the services Google offers (is there anything Google doesn't do?), and that there's infinite sublicensing potential, this is not a narrow license. It's good that it's not exclusive in theory, but in practice Google is the only one able to use all of that content.
- magicalist 7y ago> It's good that it's not exclusive in theory What does that even mean? It's a non exclusive license. "In practice" you still own the pictures and can do whatever you want with them.