&quot;he employed Google Earth to create “North Korea Uncovered.” &quot;<p>And by that creating derived work over licensed data. The press release says &quot;publicly available satellite imagery&quot;, but that doesn&#x27;t mean you&#x27;re allowed to use it for tracing.<p>If the data remains in a Google Earth project it might be fine. But it&#x27;s not open&#x2F;free data, e.g. you wouldn&#x27;t be able to import it into OpenStreetMap or make it available as download.<p>(With OpenStreetMap Bing allows tracing <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bing#Bing_Aerial_Imagery" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bing#Bing_Aerial_Imagery</a>).