On 25/11/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
On 11/24/06, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I think Google have done enough for it to count as a derived work. It's not just a compilation of images, they are put together in a very careful and precise way.
... You stitch together the tiles in a completely algorithmic manner... I say show me the creativity. I don't see it.... when it comes to creativity from Google in a typical Google Earth shot, I don't see any at all.
This dizzying shot of Chicago skyscrapers colliding from different perspectives has clearly been edited by a human.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&z=17&ll=41.881544,-87.63108...
Even if it was done algorithmically, which I doubt, then any algorithm smart enough to produce a result like that is pretty damn creative.