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Thank you for your feedback. I checked Google Maps/Earth policy and they only require proper attribution https://www.google.ca/permissions/geoguidelines/attr-guide.html So I edited the image and added their copyright info. It should be fine now. Thanks! I'm learning... UberNemo (talk) 06:34, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
- @UberNemo: I think you need to be sure that Google does not place any limitations upon commercial use. Commons only accepts images which can be freely used by anyone, anytime for any purpose (including commercial use). The 4.0 license you've decided to use explicitly states the image may be "remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially." This means I can download the image, put it on t-shirts, coffee mugs, mouse pads, and all other sorts of merchandise and make a profit of it without Google being able to do anything about. I'm not so sure Google licenses their images this way. On the link you sent me, it seems to say that such usage is expressly prohibited in the "uses in print" section. I suggest asking at Commons:Village pump/Copyright just to make sure because a quick scan of the archives of COM:DR show many Google Map/Earth images being deleted as copyright violations. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:00, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
- Hi again UberNemo. The file was retagged as a copyvio by LX and then subsequently deleted by Didym, so you need to discuss this with them if you still think the image was OK for Commons. Licensing can sometimes be tricky so it's easily to miss something, but files tend to be deleted whenever there's any doubt. -- Marchjuly (talk) 23:05, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
- There is nothing at https://www.google.ca/permissions/geoguidelines/attr-guide.html that states the content is covered by any free license. The page is essentially about attribution requirements when using their content under fair use provisions, which don't apply to Commons. The official terms of use for Google Maps/Earth content is at http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/terms_maps.html. They are completely non-free. —LX (talk, contribs) 23:25, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you LX for further clarifying things. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:15, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
- Indeed. July noted. You'll forgive my presumption, it's a different thing entirely. --Begoon - talk 15:06, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you LX for further clarifying things. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:15, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
- There is nothing at https://www.google.ca/permissions/geoguidelines/attr-guide.html that states the content is covered by any free license. The page is essentially about attribution requirements when using their content under fair use provisions, which don't apply to Commons. The official terms of use for Google Maps/Earth content is at http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/terms_maps.html. They are completely non-free. —LX (talk, contribs) 23:25, 10 March 2016 (UTC)