On 24/11/06, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/24/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
Much of Google Earth imagery *is* public domain. Google has not added the necessary creativity to change this.
That said, it's much safer to just use NASA Worldwind.
I didn't say that Google has copyright over imagery in Google Earth. I said that the imagery is copyrighted.
IANAL, of course, but I believe that the work that Google has done in stitching together all the various image data sets to produce a derivative work (Google Earth) based on them would count as creative and original, so a screenshot of such a stitched area would infringe their copyright.