Answer by David Siegel for Can satellite images be copyrighted?
Facts cannot be copyrighted. 17 USC 102 (b) reads:In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept,...
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Your claim that OSM doesn't allow editors to use aerial imagery via Google is not substantiated in the link you give. OSM does use aerial/satellite images. But as the OSM FAQ explains, Google Maps and...
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OpenStreetMap doesn't allow editors to trace satellite imagery from Google, claiming that the imagery is copyrighted and tracing it would be a copyright violation.But how can satellite images be...
View ArticleAnswer by Harper - Reinstate Monica for Can satellite images be copyrighted?
Is there really creativity in sat photos? Isn't it justLaunch satellite???ProfitForgive the meme, but the point there is that step 2 cannot be overlooked. A lot of creative decisions do get made there!...
View ArticleAnswer by Pere for Can satellite images be copyrighted?
Other answers argument why information extracted from satellite images (or the images themselves) can't be copyrighted in the USA. However, Open Street Map is based in the UK, whose copyright law have...
View ArticleAnswer by Tod for Can satellite images be copyrighted?
As the son of a Photographer and, from back in the day, a proprietor of a photo processing lab, I can tell you the law states that a photograph is automatically protected under copyright owned by the...
View ArticleAnswer by Dmitry Grigoryev for Can satellite images be copyrighted?
Regardless of the status of the original raw photos (which Google doesn't release, and those status may depend on the country), the images available online are copyrightable for the same reasons that...
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