Google Street View without the overlay

[Christopher Young]

Originally Posted by Doug Jensen

I don't see the relevance of your anecdote

You made your point. BTW I never advocated the use of someone else'e copyright material. Show me where I have advocated that. As far as your reference to my comments as being anecdotal, you are dead wrong, Doug.

Anecdotal evidence lacks verification and is largely based on very limited context. Where only one or a few anecdotes are presented, there is a larger chance that they may be unreliable due to cherry-picked or otherwise non-representative samples of typical cases.

The cases I referred to where I have been involved are not anecdotal. To the contrary. I was involved, so the examples I presented are first person based and documented, no hearsay involved. All the cases mentioned are documented and verified by the government and the networks involved. After the HMAS Torrens sinking copyright footage was used illegally, it was finally credited to the rightful copyright holders, the Australian Dept of Defence. Totally documented and verified, One of the conditions was the credit in the IMDB database to make it clear to all and sundry where the footage came from. In other words, absolutely nothing anecdotal in what I have posted.

Chris Young

[Doug Jensen]

Chris, "anecdotal" doesn't mean false. And I wasn't saying that your stories were untrue. I totally believe every word you have writen. But those are just stories about other individual cases of copyright infringement that have nothing to do with the Google issue. One wrong does not justify another, so the details of those case are totally irrelevant.

You said, "I couldn't defend Google's rights to act against people who use Google's street view photos without asking. "
In my opinion, that comment condones the OP's original post and gives a green light to usng images without attribution. If that's not what you meant, then choose your words more carefully next time so you don't give that impression.

You said, "I never advocated the use of someone else'e copyright material."
If this is true, then we are exactly on the same page and no further comment is necessary.

[Boyd Ostroff]

I agree with Doug on this one. Google has published a lot of guidelines for use of their imagery, but they make it pretty clear you are not supposed to modify their interface, which would include removing things.

"Don’t change how the Google Maps user interface looks. While you may add annotations like points and lines, you must not significantly alter how the product interface looks"

https://about.google/brand-resource-...es-google-maps