On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 16:13 -0500, Yves Moisan wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a trivia for you license-interested/competent folks. Say I have > a recent aerial photo coverage of a really nice town that I'd like to > use to digitize features, is there an issue if the photo is private > (city-owned) ? The way I see it is that if I'm digitizing a > point/line/polygon and assigning it attributes, I'm really > photo-interpreting so the data is "mine". Of course the underlying > photograph helped, but it's not data per se. Any arguments/counter > arguments or real legalese pointers ?
My understanding is that what you produce would constitute a 'derivative work'. You would hold the copyright to it, but the copyright of the photo would also apply to it. Of course, IANAL. -- Kevin Michael Smith <[email protected]>
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