On 02/02/11 17:05, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Jonathan Harley wrote:
Clearly no rendering of any map is going to be unmodified in the
sense of having identical sequences of 0s and 1s to the database,
in which case there could be no such thing as a collective work
based on a database, ever.
For print, yes, that's about the size of it.
I don't see what print's got to do with it. Any rendering, whether to
paper or to a screen, changes the bits used; if you take that as the
meaning of modified, then there could be no "unmodified" renderings of
any database, which means in turn that there could be no collective
works, so the conditions about being separate and independent would be
irrelevant.
But I don't think that "rendered" is a sensible meaning of "modified" in
this context, any more than changing the font or line length would be
considered modifying a text.
Jonathan.
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