Martin, M?rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
But a map is (this might have to be looked at for the individual case) not only a work but can constitute a database at the same time. If you are able to reconstruct a database with substantial parts of the original database by re-engineering if from the map, you must admit that the database somehow still was in the map. Otherwise you could simply create a SVG-Map, publish it under PD, recompile the db from the svg and you would have circumvented the license.
The first version of ODbL hat an explicit clause about reverse engineering, saying that if you reverse engineer a produced work the resulting DB will fall under ODbL. That has been scrapped because lawyers said that this was implicit - i.e. you *can* indeed have a produced work that is, say, PD, but if you use that to re-create the database from which it was made, that database is protected by database right once again and you need a license to use it.
Otherwise, only the most obscure works (certainly not a printed map) could fall under the "Produced Works" rule.
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