On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> wrote: > I see that you and Frederik disagreed here. (FWIW I think he is right - a PNG > file can clearly be seen as a database of pixel values. It is an image too, > and perhaps even a map or a photograph, but legally it would be hard to argue > that it *not* a database.)
Taking this argument to its logical conclusion, every digital file is a database of bytes and thus everything you create digitally from any ODbL database is a derived database and not a produced work. This seems silly. The European definition of a database 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". Individual pixels comprising a typical image (say a PNG map tile) are not independent works. Each pixel cannot stand on its own and aren't useful unless considered together with its neighboring pixels to form an image. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
