El Lunes, 2 de Noviembre de 2009, David Earl escribió: > > 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".
Oh, the wording of the spanish law is a bit funnier, because it replaces "other materials" with "other items". That means that the way I arrange the cups in my kitchen cabinet is a database too :-D So, yes, laws are blurry and subject to interpretation. News at 11. El Lunes, 2 de Noviembre de 2009, Peteris Krisjanis escribió: > 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. Just a pedantic remark: Databases are not copyrightable, 'cause copyright law doesn't apply to databases. *Sui generis database law* applies to databases (such law is based on the EU DB directive). Cheers, -- ---------------------------------- Iván Sánchez Ortega <[email protected]> http://ivan.sanchezortega.es MSN:[email protected] Jabber:[email protected] ; [email protected] IRC: ivansanchez @ OFTC & freenode
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