Captures on Google Street View: I viewed a YouTube video (since forgotten who) about practicing street photography by taking screen shots and editing from 360 degree street views in...

cygone Loc: Boston

I viewed a YouTube video (since forgotten who) about practicing street photography by taking screen shots and editing from 360 degree street views in Google maps. If you're capturing from 360 degree views and then editing, is that still Google property? Can Metadata be removed from those pictures? I just wonder about the ethics of it.

Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

cygone wrote:

I viewed a YouTube video (since forgotten who) about practicing street photography by taking screen shots and editing from 360 degree street views in Google maps. If you're capturing from 360 degree views and then editing, is that still Google property? Can Metadata be removed from those pictures? I just wonder about the ethics of it.

I would say yes it would still belong to google, and I think it would be unethical.
Best to ask a copyright attorney.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Post your results, so we all can freely download and edit and call it our own. We look forward to your link. TIA.

cygone Loc: Boston

Of course. I would expect nothing less from you

JD750 Loc: SoCal

cygone wrote:

I viewed a YouTube video (since forgotten who) about practicing street photography by taking screen shots and editing from 360 degree street views in Google maps. If you're capturing from 360 degree views and then editing, is that still Google property? Can Metadata be removed from those pictures? I just wonder about the ethics of it.

Maybe take a read of the Google TOS for Google maps?

Here is a thought, Google paid to have those pictures taken for use in the Google Maps program. If you are going to use the images commercially, re-publish them, or profit from the use of those photos then you are leaving yourself open to being sued. However if it is for your own private use, it doesn’t matter.

It’s unethical to create from another’s work and not credit them.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

JD750 wrote:

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It’s unethical to create from another’s work and not credit them.

cygone Loc: Boston

JD750 wrote:

Maybe take a read of the Google TOS for Google maps?

Here is a thought, Google paid to have those pictures taken for use in the Google Maps program. If you are going to use the images commercially, re-publish them, or profit from the use of those photos then you are leaving yourself open to being sued. However if it is for your own private use, it doesn’t matter.

It’s unethical to create from another’s work and not credit them.

Makes sense. My interest was the YouTube's point of view which was practicing Street Photography during quatantine where photographers were locked in rather than out on the street. I tried to edit some of the 'captures' (I've been calling them 'captures' to distinguish from 'shots' from the beginning) and the colors seem wanting.

cygone Loc: Boston

Someone called this the future of photography where someone could rent a satellite (which is possible today) and photograph from home. I just found the idea inter9

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Perhaps there are two considerations. One is legal and the other is ethical. And, both change depending on your purpose. Are you selling prints? Hanging in a gallery? Or just making something to put on the wall above your desk?

f8lee Loc: New Mexico

I recall seeing a photo exhibit at a museum in Santa Barbara, CA that was entirely prints of screenshots from Google maps - when I asked the docent giving the tour if that was "photography" or merely "editing" of a series of images, no different than what an editor at National Geographic would do when a shooter submits 500 photos for a story, her response was complete gobbledygook. I cannot find the "artist's" name now, but in seeking that found this article from 8 years back - when the same thing was apparently discussed:

https://petapixel.com/2012/07/27/street-view-screenshots-photography-or-plagiarism/

cygone Loc: Boston

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Thanks for this. It's exactly what I'm looking for.

FreddB Loc: PA - Delaware County

bsprague wrote:

Perhaps there are two considerations. One is legal and the other is ethical. And, both change depending on your purpose. Are you selling prints? Hanging in a gallery? Or just making something to put on the wall above your desk?

My interpretation - none of the above. He's using them to practice his street photography PP.
If you can't go to the street, bring the street to you.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

That's a great idea!!! Nothing like using some else's work and claiming it to be your masterpiece.

I have the same exalted opinion of those who fall in love with products like Arsenal and Luminar to shortcut their way to producing a photograph.
--Bob

cygone wrote:

I viewed a YouTube video (since forgotten who) about practicing street photography by taking screen shots and editing from 360 degree street views in Google maps. If you're capturing from 360 degree views and then editing, is that still Google property? Can Metadata be removed from those pictures? I just wonder about the ethics of it.

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

It’s interested me what process is used to selectively blur peoples faces and house address numbers but not faces and numbers in ads, signs and such. I pictured Google hiring thousands of people to examine every street view frame and using little blurring wands to scramble the pixels of people’s faces and house addresses. Realistically though, I’m sure the AI coding would be just as fantastic to be so discriminating.

Stan

sabfish

JD750 wrote:

Maybe take a read of the Google TOS for Google maps?

Here is a thought, Google paid to have those pictures taken for use in the Google Maps program. If you are going to use the images commercially, re-publish them, or profit from the use of those photos then you are leaving yourself open to being sued. However if it is for your own private use, it doesn’t matter.

It’s unethical to create from another’s work and not credit them.

I am an attorney, although not an intellectual property expert. I believe JD750 has properly stated the standard. If you are using the images to practice on your computer it is considered a fair use, and does not expose you to any liability.