Re: [Flightgear-devel] Willfully violating Google Terms of Use

[David V. M. <dav...@te...>]

Check this: http://atomium.be/?lang=en#/AuthorsRights.aspx?lang=en
That's the power of aberration, abuse of rights, abuse of free
expression/freedom... and whatever you may imagine.
About any software (including googlemaps/google earth) which put in
abusive protective license. Add in, no reverse engineering allowed...,
trying to understand what we "stole" is not allowed. Is just to protect
themselves because they aren't the copyright holders of the whole product
they provide. Not sure if even a click me to agree button is really of any
real legal value. After all, you didn't printed, nor signed each other and
send back to the "authors" the contract/agreement. Just to say so.
Agreements needs to be written.

It's just all about if you have money to defend you, or not. In case if
it's really needed. Laws are just 50 years behind the reality. Full of
holes to be filled in, or taken by those who need it.

Fabulously, that such atomic mess didn't made noise at all here.

Regards,
David

On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:25:06 -0000, "Alan Teeder" <ajt...@v-...>
wrote:
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Robin van Steenbergen
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 3:17 PM
> To: fli...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Willfully violating Google Terms of Use
> 
> They actually tried to sue anyone who published photographs of the
> Atomium, either on their personal blog or on album accounts. Probably
> through some kind of automated crawler script which was programmed to
> send angry letters to anyone who posted a similar looking photograph.
> 
> Needless to say, most of it is pure FUD, but unfortunately, civilians
> don't have the legal means to defend themselves against the enormous
> amounts of leverage big copyright holders can throw at it.
> 
>
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> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomium for details and links.
> 
> I wonder how many of their court cases were won?
> 
> Alan
> 
> Alan 
> 
> 
>
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