> ... > Or put differently: Even though the plaintiff was able to prove the > origin of the defendant's map by the easter eggs, that bought them > nothing, as the base data is not copyright protected and the easter eggs > won't count as "mental creation" to make it protected. > > Again: IANAL, and this is my interpretation of the ruling.
I've also thought about this over and over, since I've prepared VERY detailed (from German TK25) tiles for (as of now :-() personal use. Copyright is only one issue though. At least with the german maps there are also "terms of use", which explicitly disallow even the scanning of the maps and of course digitization. I'm not sure what violation of these rules means in terms of the legal situation. It would be interesting though whether this also is legally restricted to the case of 1:1 reproductions. On the other hand I've also seen the argument that the map as a whole (i.e. the collection of all TK25) is the original work. Reproducing a single TK25 therefore is just a citation as covered in copyright law. This probably rests on thin ice though. Just to be sure: I'm also not a lawyer and this is my personal interpretation of the situation. Thomas ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
