On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:28 PM, jamesmikedupont(a)googlemail.com
<jamesmikedupont(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Guys,
Lets get back to one point : terms of service.
We are talking about copyright here the whole time, but the contract
agreement in the terms of service are much more binding, they override
your copyright.
If the terms of service do not allow mass database extraction, WP is
violating that on a large scale.
How? By having people look on their pages every now and again, and see
around which coordinates they are at a certain point? If that is "mass
database extraction" then simply looking at the maps is "mass database
extraction on a truly enormous unprecedented scale". Besides, even
_if_ we would agree that pulling some bits of data from a map or a
picture based on a database which probably is not even _in_ that
database as such would entail "mass database extraction", then still
the only one breaking anything would be the person who originally
determined that village X is at coordinates Y, not the people who next
copy this bit of knowledge.
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André Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com