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Will be a nightmare to license the use of all this data for commercial purposes. Each house, each building, requires consent.

Sorry, but the answer is no. Unless you are willing to pay.

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That's why Hollywood movies are so expensive. When they have a scene with spider man jumping around in New York, they have to pay a fee to every owner of real estate depicted in the scene.

Worst of all is of course space documentaries, where you can see the whole Earth. The licensing fees are horrendous.

I work in Hollywood and this is or true. We do not have to pay to have buildings in the background. Nor does TV. How would anything be filmed outside if news crews had to pay fees for filming like that? I have made films in NY, London, Paris, Sydney. We can shoot someone walking through a city as long as we have permits for the space. The skyline is free. As is anything else we capture from space we have rights to.

wait... so what about Google Maps ?

He’s kidding

prove it, under what law?

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