Cost is a relevant factor in database protection law, which is one of the >> rights covered by the licence. First, a database is not protected unless >> there has been "substantial investment" in its making. >> > > > > "substantial investment" is not the same as monetary cost. The human time > that is needed to collect and arrange the data is also an investment. > > Of course they are not equivalent, and human time is another type of investment. However, cost still remains a relevant factor of consideration.
> >> >> All that said, I am still of the opinion that it is not necessary to find >> the exact line here, because the original use Lars-Daniel proposed was one >> of a collective database so long as the two sets of ZIP properties were >> kept in separate columns, which he appeared quite comfortable with. >> > > > > are kept in separate columns and are not used in combination/both to > create a produced work? > > Lars-Daniel already said that they are kept in separate columns and not de-duplicated. There is no requirement that, in order to function as a Collective Database, data types may not be used together to create a Produced Work. To the contrary, the guidance is that the most axiomatic Produced Work, a global map, may be created from multiple Collective Databases consisting of different data types and/or different countries.
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