On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > until now, most of us (I believe) have viewed the ODbL's "Produced > Works" concept as relating to something like a PNG image made from the > OSM database. A map tile, if you will. > > I wonder what other forms of "Produced Works" there are. What, for > example, about lists? If I produce from OSM a list of all bakeries in > London, with addresses, and put that up on a web page - is that more > something like a PNG image (a Produced Work), or is it already a > database excerpt (a little Javascript magic might allow you to sort the > table or to filter out certain elements - certainly characteristics of a > data base)?
Pass. I'll leave that to someone else to comment. > If the latter - would things be any different if I offered the list (a) > not on a web page, but as a PDF document which has less database-like > capabilities, or (b) in printed form? The distribution mechanism has got nothing to do with it being a database, as far as I know. The law works on a much more abstract basis than that. The definition of a database from the EU directive is "a collection of independent works, data or other materials arranged in a systematic or methodical way and individually accessible by electronic or other means". So I could arrange pebbles on a beach to represent the binary encoding of planet.osm.bz2 (how many pebbles are needed is an exercise for the reader) and that would still count as a database. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
