2009/11/2 David Earl <[email protected]>: > On 02/11/2009 13:11, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: >> El Domingo, 1 de Noviembre de 2009, Anthony escribió: >>> Yes, a collection of aerial images is a database. But a single aerial >>> image is probably not. >> >> Heck, a single aerial image *is* a database of pixels :-D > > By analogy then, so is this email a database of words and characters, > but that's a perverse interpretation, not what most people would call a > database, and certainly not for the purposes of EU database copyright > where a database is "a collection of independent works, data or other > materials which: (a) are arranged in a systematic or methodical way; and > (b) are individually accessible by electronic or other means", the key > word being "independent". >
If I am not mistaken, one definition what I heard from people with insight in this field is that sat/ort photos are databases of the facts. Fact isn't copyrightable, but database of them - is. Anyway, unless we have some rich guy who are willing to take this to at least several courts in several countries, it is better to assume the worst. Cheers, Peter. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
