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Re:Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps by Spivak on Thursday January 31, 2019 @08:55PM (#19050949)
Users wouldn't be prohibited from doing this for much the same reason people aren't prohibited from making personal copies of pages from books they own.

If you take a picture of Google Maps and then host it on your website without approval/paying Google and get caught you'll be hearing from their copyright lawyer.

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Re:Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps by 3xblah on Thursday January 31, 2019 @10:28PM (#19051324)
If the website can be accessed by others.

I could take a picture of a map and share it on my LAN via httpd so all my computers can access it. I am the only user on the LAN.

It is not the "website" aspect that would implicate copyright, it is the redistribution, e.g., via a website on the public internet.

My original question is being misunderstood. It is not about copyright or what rights Google has in maps. It is a question about why Google attempts to force users to contact them every time the user looks at a map.

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