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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere
I mean it would almost certainly be covered under fair use. It's pretty clearly an artistic re-creation of any copyrighted product to report on and visually represent data on buildings, and does not overstep the copyrighted purpose of proposed architectural drawings that any architectural firm may have prepared.
The likely problem is SSP got slapped with a lawsuit threat and the solution was to blur proposed buildings, rather than risk a court proceeding, even if they likely would have won at court under fair use. This site is basically run on a volunteer basis from what I remember, they likely just didn't want to deal with it.
How this website operated for 20 years without issue on this is probably a better question, and the easier solution would likely have been to simply blur the buildings that the architectural firm or developer who complained is responsible for.
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Thanks for that, and yes, I imagine Fair Use would apply, but as you pointed out, the site is not deep-pocketed enough to bankroll a defence to a lawsuit, however frivolous. I do prefer your solution, of only censoring the buildings of the pathetic complaining party.
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