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This means they can use your images, and make them available for other to use within their terms. When you upload photos to Google Street View, you are explicitly granting Google some commercial rights under the licensee. See full Terms of Service for current wording How Google Uses Your Contributions our contractors who’ve signed agreements with us that are consistent with these terms, only for the limited purposes described in the Purpose section belowĬorrect April 2020.other users to allow the services to work as designed, such as enabling you to share photos with people you choose.

modify your content, such as reformatting or translating it.publish, publicly perform, or publicly display your content, if you’ve made it visible to others.host, reproduce, distribute, communicate, and use your content - for example, to save your content on our systems and make it accessible from anywhere you go.Simply put when you upload content to Google, you grant them a licence to use your content under the defined terms: If you do not want to share your experience, imagery, video, or the location in which it was taken, please do not publish it using this service. Published content, along with your profile name and photo, may also appear within third–party sites that use Google embeddable widgets or the Google Maps Platform API. Though importantly, it also defines where your content may appear. This policy mainly [defines what you can and what you cannot upload. When you contribute imagery to Google Street you submit them under Google’s contribution policy. Of particular interest is the section, “ Permission to use your content”. These terms apply to content across all Google’s services, not just Street View, and define the intellectual property rights to the content that you find in Google services – whether that content belongs to you, Google or others. Google Maps/Google Earth Additional Terms of Service.

Unless you assign copyright to someone else, perhaps after selling a photo.īut how your photos can be used requires a different, more complex answer.Īfter seeing a question this week about Google Street View image licensing, I decided to dig into the fine print to find the answer.Īnd now the disclaimer is out of the way… Contributing to Street ViewĬontent you upload, submit, store, send, or receive through Google Maps/Google Earth is subject to Google’s Terms of Service. A deeper look into Google’s Terms of Service, and what it means for imagery you’ve contributed to Google Street View.