> Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80@...> writes: > > 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".
Which really, really should be the end of this. A PNG doesn't fit this description as its intent is to encode a single complete image and the pixels are not independent. Likewise PNG and SVG. Place them in a systematic or methodical collection and you have a database of images. But this is separate from their contents. If I place a travel photo of mine into a PNG and then print it out, I have not gained a database right. Likewise if I autotrace it to SVG before printing it. There is a single work, arbitrarily encoded. No database right. - Rob. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
