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I wonder about copyright issues. Aren't the floorplans and directories in malls and such copyrighted? Who has the right to upload them to Google?

jrockway 15y ago
Theoretically, businesses have the right to upload their floor plans. And, it's perfectly fine to draw your own and upload those.
- brudgers 15y ago
  [IANAL] If they draw them themselves, yes they can do what they wish. On the other hand, in the US, using the "blueprints" is probably going to be a violation of the copyright of the design professional who prepared them. Typical contract language restricts the Owner's use to "this project" and such rights terminate "upon completion of this project." [AIA Document B105-2007] Upon execution of this Agreement, the Architect grants to the Developer-Builder a nonexclusive license to use the Architect’s instruments of service solely and exclusively for purposes of constructing, using, maintaining, altering and adding to the Project or the Development, provided that the Developer-Builder substantially performs its obligations, including prompt payment of all sums when due, under this Agreement [AIA Document B107 2010].
  - jrockway 15y ago
    Just like using AirBnB is against most apartment leases, and crossing the street when the light is red is illegal. Welcome to a new age of civil disobedience, where people freely carry around ice cream cones in their back pockets on Sunday!
    - brudgers 15y ago
      That's quite a different claim from the rights based argument advanced previously. When it comes to Google, this isn't civil disobedience. It's simply taking advantage of the fact that the copyrights it is interested in ignoring are mostly held by many different people unlikely to have the resources to enforce them vigorously. BTW, it's Ice Cream Sandwiches Google wants everyone to carry.
mc32 15y ago
Santana Row, in SJ, CA has theirs mapped in Bing, already, so presumably, it's not problematic, if the mall agrees. http://binged.it/Hm8eN5 http://binged.it/Hm8eN5 Or Roosevelt Field Mall, in NY http://binged.it/I5TEGS http://binged.it/I5TEGS

jrockway 15y ago

Theoretically, businesses have the right to upload their floor plans. And, it's perfectly fine to draw your own and upload those.

brudgers 15y ago
[IANAL] If they draw them themselves, yes they can do what they wish. On the other hand, in the US, using the "blueprints" is probably going to be a violation of the copyright of the design professional who prepared them. Typical contract language restricts the Owner's use to "this project" and such rights terminate "upon completion of this project." [AIA Document B105-2007] Upon execution of this Agreement, the Architect grants to the Developer-Builder a nonexclusive license to use the Architect’s instruments of service solely and exclusively for purposes of constructing, using, maintaining, altering and adding to the Project or the Development, provided that the Developer-Builder substantially performs its obligations, including prompt payment of all sums when due, under this Agreement [AIA Document B107 2010].
- jrockway 15y ago
  Just like using AirBnB is against most apartment leases, and crossing the street when the light is red is illegal. Welcome to a new age of civil disobedience, where people freely carry around ice cream cones in their back pockets on Sunday!
  - brudgers 15y ago
    That's quite a different claim from the rights based argument advanced previously. When it comes to Google, this isn't civil disobedience. It's simply taking advantage of the fact that the copyrights it is interested in ignoring are mostly held by many different people unlikely to have the resources to enforce them vigorously. BTW, it's Ice Cream Sandwiches Google wants everyone to carry.

mc32 15y ago

Santana Row, in SJ, CA has theirs mapped in Bing, already, so presumably, it's not problematic, if the mall agrees. http://binged.it/Hm8eN5 http://binged.it/Hm8eN5 Or Roosevelt Field Mall, in NY http://binged.it/I5TEGS http://binged.it/I5TEGS