Editing Comments on FW Geography

Nice photo, John! I look forward to more of your geographical info. I know you have a ton. Please be careful of licensing. I think including one photo falls under fair use, but if you're going to include a lot, it might be better to hyperlink to them. -- [http://ron.ludism.org RonHaleEvans] 2009-06-15 14:47 UTC ---- If I take a screenshot of something in Google Earth, what kind of licensing would that fall under? -- Yatima 2009-06-15 23:19 UTC ---- It's licensed however Google Earth is licensed, which might be as simple as "all rights reserved", but probably isn't. However, the legal concept of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use|fair use] does have some bearing on the issue. -- [http://ron.ludism.org RonHaleEvans] 2009-06-16 01:32 UTC ---- http://www.google.com/permissions/geoguidelines.html\\ The image I snapped, especially combined with nearby textual attribution, seems fine for non-commercial webpage use as well as I can discern from the above page. -- Yatima 2009-06-16 02:21 UTC ---- The question is whether, beyond fair use, the Google Earth licensing terms are compatible with the GNU FDL (see footer). We will probably be moving to Creative Commons BY-SA along with Wikipedia, and those terms are less rigorous. -- [http://ron.ludism.org RonHaleEvans] 2009-06-16 15:02 UTC

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