[WikiEN-l] Google Earth copyright (now that you bring it up)

[Ray Saintonge]

Matt Brown wrote:

>On 1/21/06, Haukur Þorgeirsson <haukurth at hi.is> wrote:
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>>That wouldn't be a bad thing. But remember that it's not as simple as
>>'free' and 'non-free'. We have *a lot* of images which are in the public
>>domain in the United States but not elsewhere.
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>If I remember correctly, another category is US government works.  The
>US government has before asserted that just because US law requires
>works of the US government be freely available within the US does not
>mean, in their view, that the works are PD elsewhere.  They have
>certainly, as I recall, charged non-US corporations for using such
>data.
>
Specific examples would be helpful here. Also, laying charges and being 
successful in those charges are two different things.

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