I didn’t click the link. I’m in the clear, no nice men in suits with briefcases.

KoS

The difference is that you could possibly get in legal trouble for requesting the url I posted above. Usually if you don’t want people downloading something from your web server then you put it behind a password.

The gmaps server is still Google’s property? Or they running them off a public server(public funds/ownership)?

But I take it, you mean. Public as in, freely accessible, but still owned by a private entity?

When I see public, I thinking along the lines of taxpayer funded or the like.

KoS

WARNING: By clicking this link you may be violating google’s terms of use. Check with your lawyer before clicking!
http://mt0.google.com/mt?n=404&v=w2.61&x=3&y=5&zoom=13

The servers that the images in GE come from use some kind of authentification so you can’t download from them outside of GE. Gmaps happily sends tiles to whoever requests them though, whether you are requesting them via the gmaps api or by clicking a link like the one above.

Also it reminded me, copyright rights were extend a handful of years ago. Alot of people thought it was because of Mickey Mouse and some others copyrights were coming of age.

Would have been interesting if Mickey entered the public domain.

Eric. In your last post. Were you saying Google’s servers are public?

KoS

As for Googles targetting of World Wind in the past I can’t say too much (I gave my word), from what I remember no legal action was threatened as such, Google phoned Mr.Hogan and ‘suggested’ he remove all GE/GM images and any information about a certain plugin from the forums, and moderators were also told to remove any future comments/pictures. Several of our IP addresses were also monitored to check we were not using said plugin.

You can’t do that with the imagery from the Virtual Earth plug-in though. The VE plug-in is for anything BUT commercial use, you would have to get approval from Microsoft for that use.