Commercial Google Earth Footage License Inquiry – National Memorial Tour Company

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Gavin,

This might help, although not copying in the whole page:
https://policies.google.com/terms

Licence

Your content remains yours, which means that you retain any intellectual property rights that you have in your content. For example, you have intellectual property rights in the creative content that you make, such as reviews that you write. Or you may have the right to share someone else’s creative content if they’ve given you their permission.

We need your permission if your intellectual property rights restrict our use of your content. You provide Google with that permission through this licence.

What’s covered

This licence covers your content if that content is protected by intellectual property rights.

What’s not covered

• This licence doesn’t affect your data protection rights – it’s only about your intellectual property rights
• This licence doesn’t cover these types of content:
  • publicly available, factual information that you provide, such as corrections to the address of a local business. That information doesn’t require a licence because it’s considered common knowledge that everyone’s free to use.
  • feedback that you offer, such as suggestions to improve our services. Feedback is covered in the Service-related communications section below.

Scope

This licence is:

• worldwide, which means that it’s valid anywhere in the world
• non-exclusive, which means that you can licence your content to others
• royalty-free, which means that there are no monetary fees for this licence

Rights

This licence allows Google to:

• host, reproduce, distribute, communicate and use your content – for example, to save your content on our systems and make it accessible from anywhere that you go
• publish, publicly perform or publicly display your content, if you’ve made it visible to others
• modify your content, such as reformatting or translating it
• sublicense these rights to:
  • other users to allow the services to work as designed, such as enabling you to share photos with people that you choose
  • our contractors who’ve signed agreements with us that are consistent with these terms, only for the limited purposes described in the Purpose section below

Purpose

This licence is for the limited purpose of:

• operating and improving the services, which means allowing the services to work as designed and creating new features and functionalities. This includes using automated systems and algorithms to analyse your content:
  • for spam, malware and illegal content
  • to recognise patterns in data, such as determining when to suggest a new album in Google Photos to keep related photos together
  • to customise our services for you, such as providing recommendations and personalised search results, content and ads (which you can change or turn off in Ad Settings)

  This analysis occurs as the content is sent, received and when it is stored.

• using content that you’ve shared publicly to promote the services. For example, to promote a Google app, we might quote a review that you wrote. Or to promote Google Play, we might show a screenshot of the app that you offer in the Play Store.
• developing new technologies and services for Google consistent with these terms

Duration

This licence lasts for as long as your content is protected by intellectual property rights.

If you remove from our services any content that’s covered by this licence, our systems will stop making that content publicly available in a reasonable amount of time. There are two exceptions:

• If you already shared your content with others before removing it. For example, if you shared a photo with a friend who then made a copy of it, or shared it again, then that photo may continue to appear in your friend’s Google Account even after you remove it from your Google Account.
• If you make your content available through other companies’ services, it’s possible that search engines, including Google Search, will continue to find and display your content as part of their search results.

Other links of interest:
https://support.google.com/earth/answer/9477965?hl=en&sjid=14075784136721507530-EU#zippy=%2Cintellectual-property%2Clegal-removals

https://earth.google.com/intl/earth/

I would suggest that you don’t remove any of the Google logos, and maybe give a credit to them.

But otherwise it appears to be free for all.

Hope that this helped?

Atb
Mads

policies.google.com

Google Terms of Service – Privacy & Terms – Google

Google Terms of Service – Privacy & Terms – Google